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. Local peer effects appear as important in explaining local clusters of entrepreneurs, and imply a local feedback-effect in …
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
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This paper draws on observations from a long-established network in France, located around the town of Cognac – site of distilled beverages with the same name. Firms within this network have been successful in developing new types of products in the past decades, drawing on and diverging from...
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are played when and by whom.In this article, roles are attributed to different stages of innovation and organizational … development.A central theme is the relation between discontinuity, in radical innovation (exploration), and continuity, in … towards radical innovation.Parallel to this there are processes of organisational development. …
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This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude … toward uncertainty.Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous.An entrepreneur, who owns …'s willingness to work with the uncertain technology.The general equilibrium setting allows us to explore the impact of innovation on …
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We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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