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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230889
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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?
Naudé, Wim - 2024
This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of papers published in entrepreneurship has increased exponentially since the Second World War,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512260
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The decline in entrepreneurship in the West : is complexity ossifying the economy?
Naudé, Wim - 2019
diffusion of knowledge, and burdensome business regulations. While having merit, these explanations tend to take a supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110368
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809
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Return migration and self-employment : evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Mahé, Clotilde; Naudé, Wim - 2018
A common finding of the migration literature is that migrants are more likely to choose self-employment upon return to their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in source countries and hence supports economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798170
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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Extreme events, entrepreneurial start-ups, and innovation: theoretical conjectures
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306348
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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243470
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The ossified economy : the case of Germany, 1870-2020
Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2022
We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with … innovation indicators, and offer four broad, interrelated explanations in a historical context: (i) the innovation system is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414364