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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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Proof of Concept Centers in the United States: an exploratory look

Bradley, Samantha; Hayter, Christopher; Link, Albert - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 38 (2013) 4, pp. 349-381

In this paper we identify the population of 32 US university-related Proof of Concept Centers (PoCCs), and we present a model of technology development that identifies the economic role of PoCCs within that model. We examine the broad technology transfer challenges that PoCCs have been...

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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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From laboratory to market: on the propensity of young inventors to form a new business

Link, Albert; Welsh, Dianne - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 1, pp. 1-7

Many researchers have studied correlates of business formation. Through the case-based and statistical literature, several broad categories of influence on the entrepreneurial decision to start a new business have been identified. We contribute to this literature through statistical analysis of...

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Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter?

Gicheva, Dora; Link, Albert - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 199-210

Using project data from a random sample of Phase II research awards from the National Institutes of Health SBIR program, we estimate the relative probability that woman-owned firms are able to attract private investments to fund the transition of the technology developed under the sponsorship of...

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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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