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Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...

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Drivers of Self-Employment - A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis for the Case of Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …

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Ready to Leave the Ivory Tower? - Academic Scientists' Appeal to Work in the Private Sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …

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The Good, the Bad, and the Talented: Entrepreneurial Talent and Other-Regarding Behavior

Weitzel, Utz; Urbig, Diemo; Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltan; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

without negative externalities. The paper makes a contribution to entrepreneurship research by qualifying the implications of …

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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

entrepreneurship and the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This is consistent with the need …

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Building Winners? An Empirical Evaluation of Public Business Assistance in the Founding Process

Kösters, Sarah; Obschonka, Martin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates economic and subjective effects of public business assistance delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. Employing cluster analysis, we explore the actual scope and intensity of business assistance used. Then we analyze predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness...

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Religion and Entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behavior. …

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

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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 …

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The Process of Creative Construction: Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledge investments by existing organizations, when … research in entrepreneurship, strategy and economic growth. …

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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, 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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