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. 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 …
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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …
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male and female perceptions of typical entrepreneurship support services, such as government provision of information … suggest that existing support services are inadequate for promoting female entrepreneurship. Accordingly we discuss support … measures specifically designed for women entrepreneurs. -- entrepreneurship ; gender ; women entrepreneurs ; Africa …
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International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
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entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
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measures to proxy for entrepreneurship often gives rise to misleading inferences. Interestingly the rate of billionaire …, more venture capital investment and lower regulatory burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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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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entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …
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effect of the conflict on entrepreneurship is very small. The results on the control variables suggest that (i) the … generation of entrepreneurship has seen conflict and instability for a whole life,( ii) a small business is a mean of surviving … a priority for internationally supported reconstruction. -- entrepreneurship ; conflict ; Afghanistan ; national risk …
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