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Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity

Audretsch, David; Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 587-601

This study examines the impact of regional competitiveness on the innovative activity of entrepreneurial firms. Based on a unique and hand-collected dataset of publicly listed high-technology start-ups and university regions, this paper tests how regional competitiveness and university...

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue

Audretsch, David; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 3, pp. 531-537

still remains to be investigated on the role played by entrepreneurship in transforming local economies. The set of papers … of a bi-directional relationship between entrepreneurship and regional competitiveness, the papers shed some light on the …

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...

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Growing out of the crisis: hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013) 1, pp. 1-23

L2, L26, O3, O4. </AbstractSection> Copyright Herrmann and Kritikos; licensee Springer. 2013

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Chinese technology transfer policy: the case of the national independent innovation demonstration zone of East Lake

Huang, Yongming; Audretsch, David; Hewitt, Megan - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 38 (2013) 6, pp. 828-835

This paper analyzes the technology transfer policies that are being developed to reduce the regional disparities in economic growth in China. In particular, these technology transfer policies focus on increasing the innovative activity in central China, in order to spur economic development and...

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Entrepreneurship and innovation: public policy frameworks

Audretsch, David; Link, Albert - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 1, pp. 1-17

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Valuing an entrepreneurial enterprise

Audretsch, David; Link, Albert - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 2, pp. 139-145

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Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 4, pp. 801-817

development (R&D) and generate new knowledge. This new knowledge has a positive effect on entrepreneurship, innovation, and growth …. However, after some point, further strengthening of patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently …

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An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

Qian, Haifeng; Acs, Zoltan - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 185-197

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship identifies new knowledge as a source of entrepreneurial … firms or research institutions. This paper argues that, knowledge spillover entrepreneurship depends not only on new …, recognize its value, and commercialize it by creating a firm. This absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover …

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The missing pillar: the creativity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship

Audretsch, David; Belitski, Maksim - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 819-836

Knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and the prevailing theory of economic growth treat opportunities as … into entrepreneurship or enable entrepreneurs to recognize creativity and commercialize it. This creativity theory of … entrepreneurship depends not only on ordinary human capital, but more importantly also on creativity embodied in creative individuals …

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