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The Persistence of Regional New Business Formation-Activity over Time - Assessing the Potential of Policy Promotion Programs

Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be

Irigoyen, Jesús Maria; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the …

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Entrepreneurship over Time: Measures of Activity and Recent Changes in the US: 1993-2002

Reynolds, Paul Davidson - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

Data from three different research programs, all measuring the prevalence rate of newfirm creation in the US adult population, suggest that from 1993 to 2002 the level ofentrepreneurship may have increased up to three fold, from 4 to over 13 percent of those18-74 years of age--a shift from one...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?

Baptista, Rui; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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Entrepreneurship Capital - Determinants and Impact on Regional Economic Performance

Keilbach, Max; Audretsch, David B. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed some-thing of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has ex-amined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …

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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...

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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Diephuis, Bart - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...

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Determinants of entrepreneurship in Europe

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper presents an Eclectic Framework explaining (developments in and determinants of) entrepreneurship … the demand for entrepreneurship on the one hand, with those influencing the supply of entrepreneurs on the other hand. It … entrepreneurship can be shifted. In its empirical part the present paper estimates a multinomial logit using survey data from the 15 EU …

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The Effects of Experience, Ownership, and Knowledge on IPO Survival: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm survival on the stock market for young and high-tech firms. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German counterpart of the NASDAQ, our results differ from studies on more traditional...

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