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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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. 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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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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While entrepreneurship researchers agree that institutions "matter" for entrepreneurship, they also have a rather … encompassing understanding of institutions as almost any external factor that influences entrepreneurship. Ultimately, this …. But which institutions are most influential? How do these institutions relate to different types of entrepreneurship? And …
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We provide empirical evidence that uncertainty (rather than risk) and optimism are distinctive characteristics of high-impact entrepreneurial firms (recently listed firms) relative to old, incumbent firms. Based on this evidence, we construct an entrepreneurial entry predation model with...
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We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
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entrepreneurial experimentation comprises both "technical" and "market" experimentation, and that entrepreneurship must be …
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We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …
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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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