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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 …

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Renascent Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial Preferences Subsequent to Firm Exit

Stam, Erik; Audretsch, David; Meijaard, Joris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

Why should individuals that have exited their firm consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, i.e. become renascent … entrepreneurs? According to the logic of economic models of firm dynamics there is no reason to re-enter into entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy

Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

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Why Butterflies Don't Leave.Locational behavior of entrepreneurial firms*

Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development.Especially the continued growth of a minority …

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Starting anew: Entrepreneurial intentions and realizations subsequent to business closure

Schutjens, Veronique; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

again. The objective of this article is to explore potential and realized serial entrepreneurship. Based on three …) serial entrepreneurship... …

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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups

Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...

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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry

Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …

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Small-Scale Business Survival and Inheritance: Evidence from Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper we investigate whether small-scale businesses face financial constraints that affect their survival. We develop a model of moral hazard in which financial constraints arise endogenously. The model predicts that higher private assets relax financial constraints and have a positive...

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Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper we investigate the link between entrepreneurship and financial constraints. We develop a dynamic partial …

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Entrepreneurs' Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data

Muravyev, Alexander; Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis...

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