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Knowledge, productivity, and innovation in Nigeria : creating a new economy
Radwan, Ismail - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245410
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Local Systems’ Strategies Copying with Globalization: Collective Local Entrepreneurship
Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper aims at investigating the possible trajectories of regional clusters (industrial districts or local systems) in order to depict feasible strategies to cope with globalization. First, same relevant stylized facts on the new structure of global market are presented in order to illustrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260113
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Local Systems’ Strategies Copying with Globalization: Collective Local Entrepreneurship
Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper aims at investigating the possible trajectories of regional clusters (industrial districts or local systems) in order to depict feasible strategies to cope with globalization. First, same relevant stylized facts on the new structure of global market are presented in order to illustrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107554
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260930
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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982303
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The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle
Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Toivanen, Otto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The returns to entrepreneurship are monetary and non-monetary. We offer new evidence on these returns using a large sample of genetically identical male twins. Our within-twin analysis suggests that OLS estimates are downwards, and traditional first-differenced panel data estimates upwards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924822
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Entrepreneurship and the Hidden Economy: An Extended Matching Model
Pugno, Maurizio; Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper develops a labour market matching model in order to address the problem of the persistence of the hidden sector and of its regional concentration, as in Italy and in the enlarged Europe. The main novel features of the model are that entrepreneurial ability affects job productivity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646819
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The Underground Economy in a Matching Model of Endogenous Growth
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132744
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The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence
Lederman, Daniel - 2009
"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This … article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight … manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394134