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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation: Complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees

Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016

between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …

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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property

Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus - 2001

What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We …

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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

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Entrepreneurship, firms creation and regional performance

Rico Belda, Paz; Cabrer-Borrás, Bernardí - In: European Journal of Management and Business Economics … 28 (2019) 2, pp. 158-173

explained by business dynamics, innovation, human capital and the level of entrepreneurship in each region. Findings The results …. In addition, the stock of human capital and the promotion of innovation act as catalysts for the productive efficiency of … businesses must also be oriented towards sectors that promote technological innovation and with the objective to reach an …

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Causal recipes for turning fin-tech freelancers into smart entrepreneurs

Damian, Daniela; Manea, Ciprian - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 4 (2019) 3, pp. 196-201

-tech solutions, online reputation, innovation, capabilities and interest to apply for funding affect the desired outcome: turning … entrepreneurs is proposed, which encompasses the antecedent conditions of personal experience, reputation, innovation and commitment …

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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

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A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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