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Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional hierarchical levels are often suspected to restrict innovative activities. However, founders' capacities for information processing and resource allocation are usually strongly...
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covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
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claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …
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