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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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Technology parks and entrepreneurial outcomes around the world

Cumming, Douglas; Johan, Sofia - In: International Journal of Managerial Finance 4 (2013) SEptember, pp. 279-279

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study factors that affect the success of technology parks in terms of fostering entrepreneurial firm formation, growth, and financing. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a new international dataset of technology parks (tech parks) from 13...

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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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Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltan; Hart, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444

This article is an introduction to the special issue from the 4th Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference …. The second is to present a summary of the papers in the context of the utility of GEM data in comparative entrepreneurship …

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Introduction to special issue of Small Business Economics on female entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies

Acs, Zoltan; Bardasi, Elena; Estrin, Saul; Svejnar, Jan - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 4, pp. 393-396

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Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship in an endogenous growth model

Acs, Zoltan; Sanders, Mark - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 775-795

production processes. Our model embeds the core idea of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in established …We present a model that separates entrepreneurship from profit-motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing …

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Pre-seed government venture capital funds

Cumming, Douglas; Johan, Sofia - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 7 (2009) 1, pp. 26-56

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander; Kneiding, Christoph; Germelmann, … - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 229 (2009) 5, pp. 523-543

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on...

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