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We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are thenreflected in different loan...
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entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
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the impacts both of risk aversionand balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may alsohelp explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence about … the effects of riskaversion on selection into entrepreneurship.... …
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We compare two “entrepreneurship” datasets: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) captures early-stage entrepreneurship … and World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey (WBGES) captures business registration. GEM data is higher in developing …
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economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of … various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship …. However, destructive entrepre-neurship plays an important role in many, if not most, economies. This paper addresses the …
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
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Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
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