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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...
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Venture capital has become a dominant form of innovation finance, used by many high-tech startups. Europe lags the U …
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-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship relative to the U.S. Once we account for Europe's strong performance in technological innovation, an …
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This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be … studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in … some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge …
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Following the broad overview of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE), or new firm creation in industries … (Woodward et al., 2012), this working paper presents an analysis of two Sectoral Innovation Systems (Malerba, 2002) in the … role of "knowledge customizers" rather than "knowledge creators"; in an international comparison, even with other post …
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Innovation System, and then focus on KIE itself. Our findings are perhaps more optimistic than many previous studies of knowledge …This study surveys the current state of affairs in Poland with regard to the development of knowledge … which universities are playing a significant role as partners for firms in the innovation process has increased …
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One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...
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job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … innovation and expansion activities. In a next step, we examine three underlying motivational categories that we term opportunity …, career ambition, and necessity. We show that individuals driven by opportunity motives perform better in terms of innovation …
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well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …
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