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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
the effect of covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247889
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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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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765248
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and 2003) containing over 20,000 observations are used. Other than demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765251
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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments
Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates … this variable in both latent and actual entrepreneurship appears to be even more counterintuitive in 2004 than in 2000: it … has no impact on actual entrepreneurship and is positively related to latent entrepreneurship. Administrative complexities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765289
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588033