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This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...
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with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …
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personal traits and life skills, the family as a moderating element, as well as the mediating role of entrepreneurship training … processes. The complex nature of entrepreneurship is highlighted, which is influenced by multiple factors as possible boosters …
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, conference and workshops on entrepreneurship to boost the entrepreneurial spirit of students. Though this study has confirmed the … entrepreneurship education scholars, program evaluators, and policymakers. …
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entrepreneurship courses were the three demographic and other distal variables that explained the difference in entrepreneurial intent … among the study population. The study, however, showed gender, the chance of taking entrepreneurship courses as part of …
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Entrepreneurship is a worldwide phenomenon with economic growth across the globe that is rendered by the emergence of … solving skills, achievement and instrumental readiness, self-confidence and self-esteem, goal setting, entrepreneurship … design programs that facilitate entrepreneurship to change the mindset, attitude, and intention of those students who do not …
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The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of prior entrepreneurship exposure on entrepreneurial intention …. The results revealed that prior entrepreneurship exposure in the form of current business ownership, entrepreneurial role … and its antecedents. Prior start-up experience, knowledge of successful entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship education had …
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This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurial attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral controls on entrepreneurial intention among two distinct groups of entrepreneurs: opportunity-driven and necessity-driven. It also explores the relationship between entrepreneurial...
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giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the option to return to a previous job increases entrepreneurship. A … regression discontinuity design reveals that longer job-protected leave increases entrepreneurship by 1.9 percentage points …
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n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...
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