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Hvide, Hans K; Panos, Georgios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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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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Determinants of business success: an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the USA

Robb, Alicia; Fairlie, Robert - In: Journal of Population Economics 22 (2009) 4, pp. 827-858

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...

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Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Formation

Lee, Sam Youl; Florida, Richard; Acs, Zoltan - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 8, pp. 879-891

Lee S. Y., Florida R. and Acs Z. J. (2004) Creativity and entrepreneurship: a regional analysis of new firm formation … formation rates, little attention has been paid to the interaction among social diversity, human capital and entrepreneurship …

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