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Start-Ups and Employment Growth - Evidence from Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We use longitudinal data over a decade on start-ups and employment in Swedish regions and analyze the effect of start-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector on regional employment growth in the same sector and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090517
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090524
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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090597
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The Regional Supply of Venture Capital - Can Syndication overcome Bottlenecks?
Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate whether the supply of venture capital (VC) is driven by spatial proximity between a VC company and the portfolio firm. Our analysis is based on information about VC investments in Germany between 2004 and 2009. We find that possible problems caused by the geographic distance to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671901
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Smart capital in German start-ups - an empirical analysis
Schaefer, Dorothea; Schilder, Dirk - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
It is still an open question what kind of smart capital relational investors actually supply. We divide smart capital into several components and conduct a survey among 85 German suppliers of start-up finance. The results show that the degree of "smartness" is determined by the financial product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051036
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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131067
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616574
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The effect of new business formation on regional development - Empirical evidence, interpretation, and avenues for further research
Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828346
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Does Quality Make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837945
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The Effect of New Business Formation on Employment - The Dominance of Density
Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Empirical analyses show that the employment effects of start-ups are highest in agglomerations, whereas moderately congested areas exhibit only modest effects, and weak or even no significant effects could be found in rural regions. This paper will set out to show that these discrepancies arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970273