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This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However …
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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self-employment. …
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This paper explores the effects of deregulation and globalization on the dominant mode of corporate governance in Swedish public firms. The effects are multidimensional - the direction of change in corporate governance cannot be determined by simply examining whether a convergence towards the...
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. We also show that 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. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model. …
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entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …
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We cast entrepreneurship as one of three career choices – remaining with one's employer, changing employers, or … engaging in entrepreneurship – and theorize how the likelihood of entrepreneurship evolves over one's career. We empirically … demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between accumulated experience and entrepreneurship across various industries and …
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729197
likely to enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much … stronger for business creation than for job-switching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. We … showing that the probability of entrepreneurship increases with their prior rank in an organization is consistent with ability …
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