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This paper deals with differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) in 15 European countries for the period 1978-2000, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and using the framework of occupational choice. Using two different measures of dissatisfaction, in addition to...
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Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and...
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The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. The … relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggests that other forces such as certain …
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …. Our results show that a high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products …
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In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …
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