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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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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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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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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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Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives … and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level …
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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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, entrepreneurship creates a network externality that promotes the creation of new markets, then each individual entrepreneurial action …
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An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...
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