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Narrative and discursive approaches in entrepreneurship : a second movements in entrepreneurship book
Hjorth, Daniel (ed.); Steyaert, Chris (ed.) - 2004
This is the second volume in a mini-series on movements in entrepreneurship. It aims to forward the study of … entrepreneurship by stimulating and exploring new ideas and research practices in relation to new themes, theories, methods, pragmatic … stances and contexts. The book explores different experiences and accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as reflections on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850632
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Entrepreneurship as social change
Steyaert, Chris (contributor); Hjorth, Daniel (contributor) - 2006
This book-- the third in the Movements in Entrepreneurship series-- examines entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon …. It provides an in-depth study of the social aspects of entrepreneurship, illustrating how entrepreneurship affects … society. The need to move beyond economy to disclose entrepreneurship in its societal forms is demonstrated, as is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850918
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New movements in entrepreneurship
Steyaert, Chris (contributor); Hjorth, Daniel (contributor) - 2003
At last, a book that focuses on trendsetting thinking and research in the field of entrepreneurship and sets an agenda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851002
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The politics and aesthetics of entrepreneurship : a fourth movements in entrepreneurship book
Hjorth, Daniel (ed.); Steyaert, Chris (ed.) - 2009
This fourth book in the New Movements in Entrepreneurship series focuses on the politics and aesthetics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851113
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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247890
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247891
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Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore
Acs, Zoltan J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247894
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252210
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006
Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252214
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824127