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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Entrepreneurship in China's Structural Transitions : Network Expansion and Overhang

Dai, Ruochen; Mookherjee, Dilip; Munshi, Kaivan; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial …

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Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

From Elihu Thomson and Herbert Dow in the late nineteenth century to Steve Jobs a hundred years later, many entrepreneurs have been stymied by their investors. In this paper, we use a simple model to explore how outcomes might have been different if entrepreneurs, instead of the investors, had...

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Innovation Policy in a Networked World

Sorenson, Olav - 2017

Social relationships channel information, influence, and access to scarce resources. As a consequence, social networks - the patterns of these relationships across the members of a community - influence who comes up with important innovations, whether and how rapidly those innovations get...

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A Theory of Visionary Disruption

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...

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Optimal Taxation of Risky Entrepreneurial Capital

Boar, Corina; Knowles, Matthew P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

taxes prevent excessive entry into entrepreneurship. Optimal wealth taxes are positive but close to zero, since they …

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International differences in entrepreneurship

Lerner, Joshua (ed.); Schoar, Antoinette (contributor) - 2010

Introduction / Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar -- International perspectives on the nature of entrepreneurship … -- Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: the role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints … Colombian case / Camilo Mondragón-Vélez and Ximena Peña -- Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries / Leora Klapper …

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The role of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic growth

Andrews, Michael Jeffrey (ed.); Chatterji, Aaron (ed.); … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

"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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Theory-Driven Entrepreneurial Search

Chavda, Ankur; Gans, Joshua; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How should theory-based entrepreneurs search for strategies to implement their ideas? The theory-based view of strategy posits that decision-makers hold theories about their environment premised on beliefs that should be actively tested. This causal framework, which underlies the theory-based...

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Racial Protests and Credit Access

Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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