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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining …
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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-tech Industries?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2014
It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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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 …
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