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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Ács, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271795
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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally … entrepreneurs ; High Tech ; High Impact Firm ; Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887158
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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J. - 2008
This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271790
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The role of local embeddedness of transnational migrant start-ups in the COVID-19 crises : examples from the Berlin start-up ecosystem
Terstriep, Judith; David, Alexandra; Ruthemeier, Alexander - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment for transnational migrant start-ups. These changes have posed many challenges concerning altering strategic behaviour and approaches to driving business. We explored transnational migrant start-ups' embeddedness in translocal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278950
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The emergence of the global fintech market: Economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available, capital markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624337
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The emergence of the global fintech market: Economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011624342
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270590
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment
Ács, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271769