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Making a difference for entrepreneurs
2010
Eighth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulations in 183 economies, Doing Business 2011 measures regulations affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit,...
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Latin American entrepreneurs : many firms but little innovation
Lederman, Daniel; Messina, Julián; Pienknagura, Samuel; … - 2014
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Overview; 2. Entrepreneurship, Entry, and the Life Cycle of Firms in Latin … America and the Caribbean: Are All Forms of Firm Creation Entrepreneurial?; 3. Entrepreneurship by Incumbent Firms: What … Explains the Innovation Gap?; 4. Export Entrepreneurship; 5. Foreign Direct Invesmtne, Multinational Corporations and …
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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479602
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development
Smallbone, David (contributor); Virtanen, Markku (contributor) - 2016
development -- 4. Entrepreneurship and industrial policy in Ireland / Colm O'Gorman and Declan Curran -- 5. Towards Europe: the … becoming better home for "born globals"? / Tõnis Mets -- Part III entrepreneurship and SME policy -- 7. Entrepreneurial …Entrepreneurship and innovation are arguably the main drivers of economic development today. This book explores the two …
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A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context
Welter, Friederike (contributor);  … - 2016
. Erin Powell -- 5. The temporal dimension of context / Stephen Lippmann and Howard E. Aldrich -- 6. Entrepreneurship in … conceptualization of context and the real-time emergence of entrepreneurship processes / Denise Fletcher and Paul Selden -- 8 …. Theorizing entrepreneurship in context / Erik Stam -- 9. Methodological approaches towards context-sensitive entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419821
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Research handbook on entrepreneurial teams : theory and practice
Ben-Hafaïedh, Cyrine (contributor);  … - 2017
/ Jean-François Lalonde -- 12. Women empowerment through Government Loaned Entrepreneurship Teams (GLETs) in Kenya / Mary … Wanjiru Kinoti, Moses Kibe Kihiko and Thomas M. Cooney -- 13. Entrepreneurial teams in social entrepreneurship: when team …. Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Teams expands the boundaries of entrepreneurship literature by examining essential issues …
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