="http://press.uchicago.edu/journals/jole/forthcoming.html?journal=jole">'Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, forthcoming.<P> Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of … own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we … adoptive parents, but also for their biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more … predictions are tested with a dataset that records the adoption times of various e-business technologies in a large sample of …

simultaneous use of the resource and the alternative energy source will take place if the return to innovation becomes too low. …