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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864984
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865030
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865210
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865025
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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865142
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The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for Internationalization
Acs, Zoltán J.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865224
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865253
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
van Acht, Joost; Stam, Joop A.; Thurik, Adriaan Roy; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865257
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Market Concentration, Market Dynamism and Business Survival
Burke, Andrew; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865016