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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the …

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The shadows of the past: how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions: International evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Identity and entrepreneurship

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009

We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...

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The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem : The Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index

Szerb, László - 2015

Our article develops a Regional Entrepreneurship and Development Index (REDI) for capturing the contextual features of … the entrepreneurial ecosystems. Building on the National Systems of Entrepreneurship Theory, REDI advances our … level of entrepreneurship and optimize resource allocation over the different pillars of the ecosystem …

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The Entrepreneurship Paradox : More Entrepreneurs Are Not Always Good for the Economy – The Role of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem on Economic Performance in Africa

Lafuente, Esteban - 2019

empirical-driven arguments. This study analyzes the entrepreneurship paradox — i.e., entrepreneurship is good for the economy … between entrepreneurship and economic performance) and the policy tension (i.e., the unclear role of entrepreneurship policy … on entrepreneurship outcomes).Design/methodology/approach: Building on a sample of 81 countries from Africa, America …

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Boomer Entrepreneurs : Age and Type

Zhang, Ting - 2017

This study extends the occupational choice model to explore age effects for eight different types of boomer entrepreneurs. The empirical study relies on monthly Current Population Survey data across 11 years (2006-2016). Multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression models are estimated to...

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J. - 2018

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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