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 …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … Netherlands. Individuals with more varied work experience seems indeed more likely to successfully start up a new business and … that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …

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

45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international business program in the Netherlands. We exploit the …