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This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
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entrepreneurship and the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This is consistent with the need …
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suggests that entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development, and one that has long-run effects. …
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We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …
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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
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We investigate the effect of broad personality traits-the Big Five-on an individual's decision to become self- employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...
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Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
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