sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to compare academic entrepreneurship in the US and … entrepreneurship compared to its Swedish counterpart despite large levels of R&D spending and comprehensive government support schemes …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with …

entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for … their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the level of employment of … resources, this paper examines their influences upon the selection of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the efficiency of that …

where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …