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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 …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; OGorman, 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 …

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …

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Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy

Acs, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …

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Born Loca l: Two Avenues to Internationalization

Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...

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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?

McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being.In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...

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The Entrepreneurship-Philantrophy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the …

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CREATIVITY AND INDUSTRIAL CITIES : A CASE STUDY OF BALTIMORE

Acs, Zoltán J.; Megyesi, Monika I. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy.Creative metropolises base their economic development strategies, at least partly, on building communities attractive to the creative class worker. While there are countless examples of high-tech regions...

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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

Acs, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

, entrepreneurship and low income (LI) communities, needs to be put into perspective and that is not simple. So, let us start with a … simpler question: Does entrepreneurship impact communities in general, and, if so, how?.. …

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