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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore
Acs, Zoltan J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...
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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth
Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247897
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies
Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288702
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Entrepreneurship by Alliance
Krug, B.; Mehta, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288830
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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Eco-nomic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006
This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765228
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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database
Stel, Andre van; Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th … per capita income. This suggests that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765283
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, J.H.; Thurik, A.R.; Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …. Our results show that a high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042243
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Property Rights and Economic Growth
Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003
My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419171
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588044
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Entreprenörskap, industriell dynamik och ekonomisk tillväxt
Carlsson, Bo - Ratioinstitutet - 2002
Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642431