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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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The Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on...

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Developments in entrepreneurial finance and technology

Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Belitski, Maksim (ed.); … - 2022

, connecting these topics to wider discussions of technology-based entrepreneurship. Offering interdisciplinary insights from a …

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The Contribution of Business Ownership in Bringing Down Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Andre van; Baljeu, Lendert; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Andre van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

This study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship across countries. Explanatory variables are derived from … three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship, the literature on female … labor force participation, and that on female entrepreneurship. To test the hypotheses use is made of Global …

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Entrepreneurship Capital: Determinants and Impact

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed some-thing of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has ex-amined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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Financing High-Tech Growth: The Role of Debt or Equity

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Using a data set of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

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