Ein vielseitiger und gesunder Mittelstand ist Motor und fester Bestandteil hochentwickelter Volkswirtschaften. Mit dem vorliegenden zweiten Band setzt der Round Table Mittelstand seine Publikationsreihe fort, die sich mit zentralen mittelstandspolitischen Themen auseinandersetzt. Ausgewiesene...

Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change...

Little is currently known about the effects of skill composition on academic entrepreneurship. Therefore, in this paper, following Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades approach, we study how the composition of a scientist’s skills affects his or her intention to become an entrepreneur....