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Start-ups and employment growth: evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Noseleit, Florian - 2008

We use longitudinal data over a decade on start-ups and employment in Swedish regions and analyze the effect of start-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector on regional employment growth in the same sector and...

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Entrepreneurs' acceptance of formal institutions: a cross-country analysis

Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...

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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 global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment

Schindele, Yvonne - 2010

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there has been an ambitious political goal of fostering entrepreneurial activity in that part of the country. One of the most-hoped for results of this undertaking is the anticipated...

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The entrepreneurial advantage of world cities: evidence from global entrepreneurship monitor data

Ács, Zoltán J.; Bosma, Niels; Sternberg, Rolf - 2008

regional dimension of entrepreneurship is a subject of great interest. We set out a framework encompassing the individual … impact on this process. We create entrepreneurship indices for 34 world cities exploiting the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

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Democratic capitalism and philanthropy in a global economy

Ács, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha - 2007

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

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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009

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

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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 …

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