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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates …

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time

Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …

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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition. This paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. We test...

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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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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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