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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine - 2005
a start-up, or the inventor's effort cost in development is lower in a start-up. We test the theory using data from the … with the predictions of our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467204
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Getting Schooled : The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Immigrant founders of venture capital-backed companies have been critical to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We document the channels through which immigrant founders find their way to the United States and how those channels have changed over time. Immigrants have been an important source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533322
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Client-Based Entrepreneurship
Rauch, James E. - 2010
soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462718
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The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
Hall, Robert E. - 2008
aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464428
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470760
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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453515
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Demographics and Entrepreneurship
Liang, James - 2014
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458161
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - 2013
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459427
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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510562
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Damsgaard, Erika Farnstrand - 2012
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
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