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 …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …