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The Knowledge Filter, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …

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Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy in a Global Economy

Acs, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …

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Serial Entrepreneurship: Differentiating Direct from Latent Re-entrants

Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

importance of human capital in triggering serial entrepreneurship, but the kinds of experiences driving direct and latent serial …

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Building a Better Rat Trap : Technological Innovation, Human Capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …

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The Localization of Entrepreneurship Capital - Evidence from Germany -

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a … regions capacity to create new firms start-ups as the regions entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local … knowledge-based entrepreneurship capital is driven by local levels of knowledge creation and the acceptance of new ideas …

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Born Loca l: Two Avenues to Internationalization

Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...

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Self-Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Regions in the Period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth

Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, Jolanda; Stel, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …

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Entrepreneurship, State Economic Development Policy, and the Entrepreneurial University

Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronny J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

entrepreneurship into state economic development and incubate entrepreneurial companies.Regional entrepreneurship policy is a new …

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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?

McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being.In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...

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