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Link, Albert N. (contributor) - 2017

entrepreneur and the gender gap in entrepreneurship / Olga Bentsson, Tino Sanandaji and Magnus Johannesson -- 3. Female immigrant … entrepreneurship in Germany / David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, and Katharine Wirsching -- 4. Gender and entrepreneurship : selected … Ruoh-Man (Terry) Yan -- 6. Barriers to academic entrepreneurship among women : a review of the constituent literatures …

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Fostering University‐Industry R&D Collaborations in European Union Countries

Link, Albert N.; Cunningham, James - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2014

This paper advances our understanding of university-industry research and development (R&D) collaborations. These strategic relationships are a dimension of entrepreneurial activity, and they are thus important drivers of economic growth and development. Business collaboration with universities...

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A Theoretical Analysis of the Role of Social Networks in Entrepreneurship

Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N.; Siegel, Donald S. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013

Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … entrepreneurship increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. The results also lend credence to theories of entrepreneurship …

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Toward a Theory of the Entrepreneurial Process

Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2014

This paper models the entrepreneurial process as both creation and discovery composed of an iterative two-step process where entrepreneurs create social networks based on subjective expectations about the future effectiveness of those networks, and then choose the innovation to pursue and map a...

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Making Sense of the Elusive Paradigm of Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N.; Donald, Kuratko - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2015

The term “entrepreneurship” apparently means different things to different people including scholars and thought … leaders. Because entrepreneurship is multifaceted, it is studied from many different perspectives, yet, that has fostered a … disparities and even contradictions about what is and is not entrepreneurship. Some have suggested a narrower and more defined …

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The Gender Gap in Federal and Private Support for Entrepreneurship

Gicheva, Dora; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2015

The role of gender in entrepreneurship has been thoroughly investigated. However, less is known about gender …

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Public Gains from Entrepreneurial Research: Inferences about the Economic Value of Public Support of the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Allen, Stuart Douglas; Layson, Stephen K.; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012

This paper presents a systematic analysis of the net economic benefits associated with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We offer a derivation of producer and consumer surplus to estimate economic benefits. Fundamental to the implementation of these models is a specific...

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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

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Employment Growth from Public Support of Innovation in Small Firms

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John Troy - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

We investigate the impacts of the U.S. publicly-funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program’s funding on the overall employment growth of SBIR-award recipient firms. This paper is motivated by the U.S. Congress’ continued emphasis of employment growth during its deliberations on...

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Universities as Research Partners in Publicly Supported Entrepreneurial Firms

Audretsch, David B.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012

Partnerships between universities and industrial firms can play a key role in enhancing competitiveness because they provide a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the academic organization where knowledge is created to the firm where it is transformed into innovative activity. We set...

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