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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< …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; OGorman, 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 …

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Building a Better Rat Trap : Technological Innovation, Human Capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …

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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...

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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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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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