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 …

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 …

. 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. …

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of … entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the … entrepreneurship. In order to unambiguously identify high-impact entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) who appear …

We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …

their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …