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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Lloyd, Ainsley - 2017
data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI … understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. In addition to yearly data and comparison, this 2017 … entrepreneurship: the GEDI and the Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) measure. Whereas developed countries will be …
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016
Acs, Zoltan; Szerb, László; Autio, Erkko - 2017
This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and … aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index … provides a tool to help policymakers and governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to address some of the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397482
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Entrepreneurship and Culture
Freytag, Andreas - 2010
Culture and the Individual Entrepreneur -- Introducing Entrepreneurship and Culture -- Entrepreneurial Motivations … -- Entrepreneurial Culture, Regional Innovativeness and Economic Growth -- Transnational Cultural Differences -- Entrepreneurship and its … Nascent Entrepreneurship -- Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Protection and …
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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191001
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479519
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479602
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480969
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481000
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places : Examining the Success Factors of Regional Entrepreneurship
Andonova, Veneta; Nikolova, Milena S.; Dimitrov, Dilyan - 2019
‘Entrepreneurship can make a difference in a society when its success stories are celebrated and its lessons learned … Lecturer & MD, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, USA, and Author of Disciplined Entrepreneurship (2013) This book … sheds light on one of the biggest development issues of our time: how the rise of entrepreneurship and the associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396049
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The Impact of Diaspora Ventures on the Dynamics of the Start-up Ecosystem Berlin
Baron, Thomas - 2017
This book brings together the research fields of start-up ecosystems and diaspora entrepreneurship. The author …-up Ecosystem • Diaspora Entrepreneurship and Diaspora Research • Impacts on the Dynamics of the Start-up Ecosystem Berlin … • Limitations and Future Research Target Groups • Researchers and students in the field of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396186