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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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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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their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …
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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 …
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I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I … robust to controlling for selection into entrepreneurship and selection into college. …
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Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...
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Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … motion by entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-a-vis entrepreneurship …. Professor Kirzner's main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan …
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Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only … indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals’ relative well-being. We theorize on the nuanced relationship … between entrepreneurship and equality of eudaimonic well-being through the lens of New Institutional Economics. Drawing on …
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