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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany

Weber, Andrea Maria; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2006

We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational outcomes using two different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school and in the middle of secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable estimation exploiting the exogenous variation...

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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: From microcredit to microfinance

Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

been suggested. We place these developments in a social innovation process perspective by showing that microfinance …

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From market failures to market opportunities: Managing innovation under asymmetric information

Barbaroux, Pierre - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-15

management of innovation. Results are organised in two categories. On the one hand, information asymmetry is considered as a … innovation under asymmetric information. …

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The academic firm: A new design and redesign proposition for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy

Campbell, David F. J.; Carayannis, Elias G. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 12, pp. 1-10

design (and redesign) for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy. … encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental development, R&D) and knowledge … application (innovation). The academic firm interprets and qualifies a disciplinary (interdisciplinary) variety of the background …

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A maturity model for software startup ecosystems

Cukier, Daniel; Kon, Fabio - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 7 (2018) 14, pp. 1-32

Resulting from the digital revolution of the last decades, multiple startup hubs flourished across the globe in the past 10 years. Healthy environments for the development of innovative, nascent digital enterprises require a well-balanced variety of agents and supporting processes, which we...

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On the origin of innovations: The opportunity vacuum as a conceptual model for the explanation of innovation

Planing, Patrick - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 6 (2017) 5, pp. 1-18

The aim of this paper is to transfer the innovation system (IS) approach to the microeconomic level, creating a … dimensions. First, the adjacent possible defines a narrow space of potential first-order combinations of exiting knowledge, which … intersecting area, when the opportunity vacuum (OV) is created. The OV is a space, which strongly attracts innovation and often …

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A cyber-security framework for development, defense and innovation at NATO

Efthymiopoulos, Marios Panagiotis - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-26

operations. There is a policy need for constant innovation and entrepreneurship in security, one that reflects also NATO … a stronger eye toward practical innovation and entrepreneurship; practicality in operational management, while enhancing … innovation and entrepreneurship, while new geostrategic and geo-economic challenges emerge. …

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Global expansion of SMEs: Role of global market strategy for Kenyan SMEs

Osano, Hezron Mogaka - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-31

business strategy toward global market strategy, market research geared at obtaining foreign market intelligence, innovation … less tightly connected networks of shared production and innovation if they are to succeed in the current wave of …

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