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A new approach in German innovation policy organizes contests of proposals for developing innovation networks. Based on an overview of the different programs, we investigate the advantages, problems and limitations of such an approach. We find that this type of policy may have a relatively large...
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As building-integrated photovoltaic (PV) solutions can meet around one-third of electricity demand in Germany and China, both countries are interested in exploring this potential. PV technologies have demonstrated significant price reductions, but large-scale global application of PV requires...
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In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … suggests possible future research avenues. Key insights from the literature are that entrepreneurs may operate in imperfect … financial markets and that entrepreneurs are less risk-averse than the rest of the population. A focus of this paper is …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate …
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and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
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This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We demonstrate that the acquisition of domestic banks by foreign investors has led to reduced firm creation, smaller average size of entrants and increased firm exit in opaque industries...
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rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk … entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer … as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. …
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When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors … employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set …
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