Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …

start-up entrepreneurship. In this light I (i) show why manufacturing is vital for African economies, (ii) critically … Africa; (iii) describe the resurgence of technological start-up entrepreneurship in Africa and (iv) call for policy support …

Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like … co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I provide a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities … (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …

with the ideas of entrepreneurship as being place dependent and that ecosystem measures should be concerned with what …

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …