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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058696
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo
Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an …
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Das Gründungsgeschehen in Dresden, Rostock und Karlsruhe: eine Betrachtung des regionalen Gründungspotenzials
Henning, Tobias; Mueller, Pamela; Niese, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006
This paper compares the structure and the development of new firm formation activity in three German regions. The two East German regions, Dresden and Rostock, show significantly higher start-up rates than the West German region Karlsruhe. The analysis of entry cohorts reveals that not only the...
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Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2005
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014
research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions … between invention and innovation. They then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and they discuss factors that help sustain these …
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
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Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Organization of Work
Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007
This paper presents an explicit model of the entrepreneur’s role in organizing the work undertaken by employees. The model assumes that agents vary in their ability to carry out this task, and so in one sense the model is a special case of Lucas’ [Bell Journal of Economics, 9, pp. 508-523,...
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Entrepreneurship - Methodische Herausforderungen einer jungen Forschungsdisziplin
Schuster, Charlotte Leonie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Even if today's successful companies operating in the market were start-ups at some time, so far, no consensus could be found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own theory based on generally accepted assumptions and...
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El Control como éxito de los Emprendimientos de la Parroquia de Quichinche, Cantón Otavalo, Provincia de Imbabura (The Control as Success in Entrepreneurship of Quichinche Municipa...
Burbano, Miriam Janneth Pantoja; Paspuel, Olga Germania … - In: Revista Internacional de Gestión del Conocimiento y la … 2 (2014) 4, pp. 18-29
Resumen En este artículo se establece como el control previo, concurrente y posterior, puede lograr que los emprendimientos tengan éxito y contribuyan al desarrollo socioeconómico de los sectores, mismos que proporcionan fuentes de trabajo, e insertan directa e indirectamente a su población...
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