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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector

Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

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Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm P.; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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Measuring investment in human capital formation: An experimental analysis of early life outcomes

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013

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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality

Heckman, James J. - 2011

In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...

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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 2013

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...

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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Phillips, Ronnie J. - 2007

prosperity through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic …

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The entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus: nonmarket source of American entrepreneurial capitalism

Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Phillips, Ronnie J. - 2007

prosperity through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271768

The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth

Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. Accor-ding to the "new growth theory," investments in knowledge and human capital ge …-nerate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not ex-plain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

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