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cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal … interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike survey-based measures of noncognitive ability, this measure is a substantially …
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entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation process. In addition, we provide a framework where the theories of … Knight’s risk defining entrepreneur and Schumpeter’s innovative entrepreneur can be bridged. Merging the two enhances the … information and reduce uncertainty. This serves to expand the market opportunities for the entrepreneur. The empirical analysis is …
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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 …
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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 …
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where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …
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Attention is called to a little explored scarce resource, termed 'economic competence', which combines features of human capital and bounded rationality, and causes a singularity in resource-allocation in society. The performance of each economy is shown to strongly depend on how this resource...
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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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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well … the entrepreneur is unable to decouple savings decisions from investment decisions, and due to the comple-mentarities in …
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Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper … is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the theoretical model proposed, abilities are an outcome of talent and …
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