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Contextual embeddedness of entrepreneurship : frontiers in european entrepreneurship research

Xheneti, Mirela (ed.); Costa, Silvia (ed.); … - 2023

"The contextual turn in the field of entrepreneurship means it is crucial for scholars to integrate into their research … the multifaceted contexts in which entrepreneurship is embedded. This insightful book explores the different spatial …, social, digital, institutional and policy contexts for entrepreneurship and investigates their relevance for entrepreneurship …

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Property Rights and Economic Growth

Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...

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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...

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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden

Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...

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The Geography of Creative People in Germany revisited

Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This paper investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places...

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Drivers of Self-Employment - A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis for the Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …

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Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

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Virtue as Competence in the Entrepreneurial Society

Karlson, Nils; Fergin, Elina - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

. Moreover, to a certain degree virtues are learnt through the practice of <p> entrepreneurship. Due to their importance, though …

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Ready to Leave the Ivory Tower? - Academic Scientists' Appeal to Work in the Private Sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

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