The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want … can we expect to see entrepreneurs in China behaving like their counterparts in the advanced industrial economies of … environment are at the same time generating novel institutional arrangements in support of entrepreneurs' investments. We agree …

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their … start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start …-up because they did not choose to become entrepreneurs out of free will, but out of long-term unemployment or a lack of better …

entrepreneurs. The first measure is used to investigate whether variables have an impact on entrepreneurship in general (influencing … measures of female entrepreneurship: the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of … both the number of female and male entrepreneurs). The second measure is used to investigate whether factors have a …

Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …

aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …

, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as their relevance for entrepreneurship. An occupational … compensating pull of entrepreneurship in countries with low uncertainty avoidance may have gained momentum in recent years. Third …

local government agencies. We find that the analysis of firms has to set in before they are formed by entrepreneurs and …

in a society is low, so that young entrepreneurs find it hard, and costly, to acquire the necessary know-how. Second … China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking …

distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and a combination of the two, referred to as total … entrepreneurial activity, as defined within the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The model is also tested for the rate of … established businesses. The measure for postmaterialism is based upon Inglehart’s four-item postmaterialism index. A set of …