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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea
Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
entrepreneurship and grassroots-initiated mega-sporting events in Asia are discussed...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864506
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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Born Loca l: Two Avenues to Internationalization
Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864585
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Could The Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?
Acs, Zoltán J.; O’Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role ineconomic development. Internationalization theory is used to explore how inward FDIimpacts entrepreneurial activity. Using data from the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor we find significant differences in...
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