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The evolution of high-technology in China after 1978: Towards technological entrepreneurship

Greeven, M.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2004

entrepreneurship and identify computer hardware and software as key sectors for NTEs and high-technology development. …

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The Emergence of a Private Business Sector in China

Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001

This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.

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Determinants of entrepreneurship. Is it all about the individual or the region?

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms …

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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance

Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

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Determinants of self-employment among commuters and non-commuters

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

-commuters. In the entrepreneurship literature it is claimed that the rich-ness and quality of an individual’s business, professional …

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Understanding the Drivers of an ‘Entrepreneurial’ Economy : Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands

Okamuro, Hiroyuki; Van Stel, André; Verheul, Ingrid - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2010

considerably less favourable to entrepreneurship, compared to Japan. On the other hand, cultural differences between the … Netherlands and Japan explain a substantial part of the difference in entrepreneurship rates between the two countries. …

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Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival

Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...

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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

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Who Is an Entrepreneur?

Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press

Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The...

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Role of Strong <i>versus</i> Weak Networks in Small Business Growth in an Emerging Economy

Kozan, M. Kamil; Akdeniz, Levent - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50

The study tests whether strong rather than weak ties account for small business growth in Turkey. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire filled out by the owners of small firms operating in four cities. Growth is comprised of two main areas, production expansion and knowledge...

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