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is now being emphasized in the entrepreneurship literature. Much of the research on business models has focused on …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the evolution of small firm performance. We do so by studying performance changes on a two dimensional "growth– profitability performance space". It is well established that both growth and profitability are important dimensions of...
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In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …
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The purpose of the paper is to show how entrepreneurship conditions vary between regions of various sizes, and test the … theoretical arguments on why large regions generally should generate more entrepreneurship. The paper empirically ana¬lyzes the … role of regional size in explaining varia¬tions in total entrepreneurship. It also examines en¬trepreneurship in different …
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The general motivation for this paper is the current interest in globalization as a phenomenon that strongly affects the conditions of local economic development. Our purpose is to contribute to some of the current development aspects, in particular those that foster the evolution of...
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literature does not provide a comprehensive picture and we are indeed lacking a “general theory” of the knowledge economy …
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and innovations for economic development in … functional regions and in doing that highlighting the different conditions offered for entrepreneurship and innovations in … functional regions of various sizes. In conclusion, the conditions for entrepreneurship and innovations vary substantially …
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The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description …. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield … concept. Numerous empirical studies have examined the effects of entrepreneurship, but few studies have been undertaken in …
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. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms …
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influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
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