patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our … theoretical priors – both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and … entrepreneurs become infant entrepreneurs, and that observed individual characteristics – with the important exception of former …

-improving product innovation. We explicitly introduce product market characteristics into the analysis with the aim to identify their ….e., selling the venture to an existing company) when the new product is sufficiently innovative. This leads to an agency conflict … capitalist. The entrepreneur has incentives to distort the innovation strategy so as to make an IPO the preferred exit. We derive …

To exploit the economies of scale and scope in multi-product technologies, enterprises in advanced capitalist countries … grew in the last 150 years in three directions. By substituting in the place of traditional entrepreneurs professional … geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And …

doctoral students found 566 normative statements about pricing, product, place, or promotion in these texts. None of these …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …

.e., their prediction ability), and derives an aggregate production function as a result of entrepreneurship. An increase in … affects the total factor productivity (TFP) of an economy, the model can explain how entrepreneurship influences TFP. …

This paper examines a particular aspect of entrepreneurship, namely firms' activities in adapting to idiosyncratic …