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How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …
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, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …Entrepreneurship is thought to be a key driver of economic growth. While there are myriad forms of entrepreneurship …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …
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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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This paper explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a … enormously valuable for innovation and growth, but can impede heterodox thinking and imagination; c) large-firm R&D requires … are effective, we know little about training for the critical task of breakthrough innovation …
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government funding programs increased local innovation, particularly when the programs focused on early-stage ventures or …
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In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
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