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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, Jolanda; Stel, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864588
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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition. This paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865025
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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865142
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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for Internationalization
Acs, Zoltán J.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865224
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865253