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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...

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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Management Science. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...

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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach

Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …

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The Multipliers and Key Sectors of Entrepreneurship Spillover: An input-output approach

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and … industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an … are: (a) to develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship spillover; (b) to identify the …

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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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