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The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium

Burke, Andrew; Stel, André van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...

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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship: An Equilibrium Model

Fok, Dennis; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...

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Modelling Entrepreneurship

Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approach focusing on the net development of the number of entrepreneurs in an equilibrium framework and (ii) the approach focusing on the entries and exits of entrepreneurs. In this paper we unify these ap-...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regio nal …

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Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth

Stel, André van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not … this controversy using a model of regional growth. The model also deals with the impact of local competition on innovation …

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Pharmaceutical Research Strategies

Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Innovation, Industry Evoluation and Employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the links between innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … been the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen the latter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

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