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Innovative nascent entrepreneurs face the problem of obtaining finance, mainly due to information problems. We use new data on capital seeking start-ups allowing distinction between planning stage and early stage. Being innovative does not affect the probability of having external finance in the...
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This paper explores innovation, experimentation, and creativity in the public domain and in the public interest …. Researchers in various disciplines have studied public entrepreneurship, but there is little work in management and economics on … the nature, incentives, constraints and boundaries of entrepreneurship directed to public ends. We identify a framework …
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While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth …, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain … cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship by differences in economic policy and institutional design …
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Although they have developed very much in isolation from each other, we argue the theory of entrepreneurship and the … entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Frank Knight and some Austrian school economists aligns naturally with the theory of the … assets are heterogeneous. Asset ownership facilitates experimenting entrepreneurship: Acquiring a bundle of property rights …
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This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm’s distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...
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not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …
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Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … exposed to the need to engage in incremental product and service innovation the economic potential of diffusing good practices … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. …
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performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …
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This paper investigates the value of high-powered incentives for motivating search for novelty in business organizations. While organizational search critically depends on the individual efforts of employees, motivating search effort is challenged by problems of unobservable behavior and the...
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in which the offshore outsourcing of a corporation goes through a sequence of stages towards sourcing for innovation … low-cost countries: the insourcer/vendor may not only offer cost advantages, but also quality improvement and innovation …
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