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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing
Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003
An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...
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Banking Entrepreneurship Differentials between Europe and Usa : A Note
Georgiou, Miltiades N.; Kyriazēs, Nikos K. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
The present paper refers to the field of "corporate convergence theory". A recent work on corporate convergence of Krishna et al. (2002) points out that there is little evidence that common standards in corporate fovernance have been implemented.Besides, in the same study (page 2) it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864879
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A Practical Method to Estimate Entrepreneurship's Reward
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
to estimate entrepreneurship's reward. As an example, a regression, based on the entrepreneurship's reward, with baning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864979
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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance
Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864983
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The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups
Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864998
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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry
Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865017
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets …-Company Program. Nevertheless, so far, its effects on students’ entrepreneurship competencies and attitudes have not been evaluated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864500
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The Geography and Determinantsof Entrepreneurship
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial locationas a micro-determinant of occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864501
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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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