crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience. …Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In … this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how …

Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main … contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan, Eliasson and Henrekson (2007). …

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 …

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly … Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been possible to make a number of changes in order to strengthen the Prize even … further: The name is changed to The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Prize sum is roughly doubled to 100 …

entrepreneurship waned in importance, the general public grew increasingly hostile towards capitalism, and by the late 1970s explicit … increasingly predominant, did not foresee the revival of entrepreneurship that took place in the Western countries around 1980. …

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 …

-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 …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …