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This paper investigates economic and subjective effects of public business assistance delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. Employing cluster analysis, we explore the actual scope and intensity of business assistance used. Then we analyze predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness...
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There is a debate in the literature backed by ambiguous empirical evidence whether personality is useful at predicting … entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and … role of personality for peoples' vocational choices, in order to shed more light on the interplay between personality …
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The definition of an attribute-set for preference measurement is still a unsolved problem since all common methods only concentrate on the attributes but are not applicable to reveal the relevant attribute-levels. We therefore propose a new method called "EVAS" (Evoked-set Based Attribute...
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This study is directly motivated by the results of Eckartz et al (2012). Subjects exerted suprisingly high efforts irrespectively of how they were compensated. This paper discusses a number of potential explanations and then it will focus on two of them: first, subjects might exert effort simply...
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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills …, personality traits and innovation game behavior in the lab are interrelated. With the help of a within-subject design we find that …
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We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...
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Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …
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The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities …
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This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...
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