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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
Serrano, Carlos J.; Åstebro, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
projects run by solo-entrepreneurs. These gross differences may be due both to business partners' value added and to selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151111
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Chatterji, Aaron; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969371
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The Twilight Zone: OTC Regulatory Regimes and Market Quality
Leuz, Christian; Brüggemann, Ulf; Kaul, Aditya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We analyze a comprehensive sample of more than 10,000 U.S. stocks in the OTC market. As little is known about this market, we first characterize OTC firms by trading venue and provide evidence on survival, success, frequency of venue changes, reporting status, and trading activity. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969441
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Knight, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950711
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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950745
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
university scientists in which valuable tacit knowledge is transferred in both directions. We provide suggestive evidence that …-tech firms have adopted a strategy of operating near the edge of the scientific envelope where high levels of tacit knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753
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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs. …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950817
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The Role of Patents for Bridging the Science to Market Gap
Hellmann, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper examines an ex-post rationale for the patenting of scientific discoveries. In this model, scientist do not know which firms can make use of their discoveries, and firms do not know which scientific discoveries might be useful to them. To bridge this gap, either or both sides need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085087
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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science) database spanning all sciences, technologies, and high-tech industries …, NSF, SBIR, STTR Grants; Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge; ISI Highly Cited; US doctoral dissertations; IPEDS … the development and spread of knowledge, and the economics of science. Enabling the study of these topics, among others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294555
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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325523