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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly … further: The name is changed to The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Prize sum is roughly doubled to 100 …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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-rational modes underlie both the erratic perturbations of entrepreneurship and the systematic waves of diffusion they initiate which … possible by financial intermediation. They imply asymmetric changes in individual welfare. The markets for entrepreneurship …
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. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …
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I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I … robust to controlling for selection into entrepreneurship and selection into college. …
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
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Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …
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