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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...
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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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Could The Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?
Acs, Zoltán J.; O’Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role ineconomic development. Internationalization theory is used to explore how inward FDIimpacts entrepreneurial activity. Using data from the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor we find significant differences in...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea
Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
entrepreneurship and grassroots-initiated mega-sporting events in Asia are discussed...<br< …
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The Process of Creative Construction:Knowledge Spillovers,Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
underlyingmechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledgeinvestments by existing organizations, when coupled …
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What Does “Entrepreneurship” Data Really Show?
Acs, Zoltán J.; Desai, Sameeksha; Klapper, Leora - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
We compare two “entrepreneurship” datasets: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) captures early-stage entrepreneurship … and World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey (WBGES) captures business registration. GEM data is higher in developing …
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