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Davidsson, Per - 2011

The past two decades have witnessed a surge in interest in the field of nascent entrepreneurship. In this title, the … Management, Faculty of Business, QUT. -- Davidsson, P., and J. Wiklund, (2001), 'Levels of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research …: Current Practice and Suggestions for the Future', Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 25 (4, Summer), 81-99. -- De Clercq, D …

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Entrepreneurship and the growth of firms

Davidsson, Per - 2006

Introduction / Per Davidsson, Frédéric Delmar, Johan Wiklund -- Entrepreneurship as growth; growth as entrepreneurship …

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The entrepreneurship research challenge

Davidsson, Per - 2008

Entrepreneurship is an emerging, dynamic and to a considerable extent, unpredictable phenomenon. Thus, it makes for a …pt. 1. Defining and describing the entrepreneurship phenomenon -- pt. 2. Research. design issues -- pt. 3. Interpreting …

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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 …

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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth

Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

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New Firm Survival and Human Capital

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

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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...

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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...

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The Contribution of Business Ownership in Bringing Down Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Andre van; Baljeu, Lendert; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Andre van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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