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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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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner - 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/10012775851
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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
Kerr, William - 2015
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046240
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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944787
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The Leveraging of Silicon Valley
Davis, Jesse - 2020
Early-stage firms utilize venture debt in one-third of financing rounds despite their general lack of cash flow and collateral. In our model, we show how venture debt aligns incentives within a firm. We derive a novel theoretical channel in which runway extension through debt increases firm...
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Boosting firm dynamism and performance in China
Molnár, Margit - 2017
, fostering an environment that is more conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship, and facilitating resource reallocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732705
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Analyzing new ventures' innovation generation and adoption : a configurational analysis from the optimal distinctiveness perspective
Xie, Zhimin; Xie, Lingmin; Liu, Li - In: Journal of business economics and management 25 (2024) 3, pp. 572-589
comparative analysis (fsQCA) based on country-level data obtained from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project. Our …
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
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The dynamics of entrepreneurial careers in high-tech ventures : experience, education, and exit
Cumming, Douglas J.; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen - 2015
online database indicate that founders stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor only in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436054
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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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