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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015496
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323395
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291