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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864971
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What Does “Entrepreneurship” Data Really Show?
Acs, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha; Klapper, Leora - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
We compare two “entrepreneurship” datasets: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) captures early-stage entrepreneurship … and World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey (WBGES) captures business registration. GEM data is higher in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864510
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University
Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronny J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
entrepreneurship into state economic development and incubate entrepreneurial companies.Regional entrepreneurship policy is a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864636
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Why Butterflies Don't Leave.Locational behavior of entrepreneurial firms*
Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development.Especially the continued growth of a minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864876
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The Knowledge Filter and Economic Growth: The Role of Scientist Entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B.; Aldridge, Taylor; Oetti, Alexander - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This study examines the prevalence and determinants of the commercialization of research by university scientists funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Because the two publicly available modes of scientist commercialization - patents and Small Business Innovation Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864962
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Could The Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?
Acs, Zoltán J.; O’Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role ineconomic development. Internationalization theory is used to explore how inward FDIimpacts entrepreneurial activity. Using data from the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor we find significant differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864986
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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865014
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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition. This paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865025
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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865142