Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the … experienced founders' access to venture capital. Compared to novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding …

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By … for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent and 9.9 percent, respectively). We perform various analyses in an … attempt to explain the difference. We find (indirect) support for the argument that the higher RTE for entrepreneurs is due to …

Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the … entrepreneurs fare in the labor market compared to natives. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find …