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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Identity and entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...

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Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015

We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...

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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Creative destruction and productive preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 40 (2013) 2, pp. 459-478

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The evolving domain of entrepreneurship research

Carlsson, Bo; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; McKelvey, Maureen D.; … - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 41 (2013) 4, pp. 913-930

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Identity and entrepreneurship : do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions?

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 39 (2012) 1, pp. 39-59

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