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The impact of institutional sources of capital upon the minority-oriented venture capital industry
Bates, Timothy Mason; Bradford, William D. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 33 (2009) 4, pp. 485-496
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Exploration and exploitation: the role of entrepreneurship and R&D in the process of innovation
Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - 2007
stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263851
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Start-ups, new business employment, and the effects on incumbents: who contributes the larger share?
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2008
We investigate the effects that new business formation has on employment in incumbent firms and compare it to the development in the start-ups. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1984-2002 period. It shows that the employment effects of new businesses on the incumbents...
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The process of creative construction: knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and economic growth
Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David B.; Sarkar, MB - 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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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271789
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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J. - 2008
This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …
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Creative industries, new business formation and regional economic growth
Piergiovanni, Roberta; Carree, Martin A.; Santarelli, Enrico - 2009
The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are...
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What is the value of entrepreneurship?: a review of recent research
van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276297
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Why does the effect of new business formation differ across regions?
Fritsch, Michael; Schröter, Alexandra - 2007
We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse 'u'-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new businesses in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276594
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The effect of new business formation on employment: the dominance of density
Schröter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...
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