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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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Entrepreneurship can have important positive effects linked to job creation, wealth and income generation, innovation … mechanism through which entrepreneurship can be encouraged, grown and its economic benefits harnessed. The effect of regulatory … conditions on entrepreneurship however is not well understood, and can be nuanced given the wide range of regulatory tools and …
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the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …
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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...
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the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the regional level differs between the U.S. and Sweden. By … regressing annual entrepreneurship on regional employment growth (and controlling for other conceivable variables impacting … employment growth) entrepreneurship is shown to be positively and significantly associated with regional growth in both countries …
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of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries. …
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Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused and converted into growth, is fragmented and partial. The neoclassical growth models disregarded the entrepreneur and viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary...
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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