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When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...

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Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation …

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Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups

Gries, Thomas; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

Start-ups of new firms are important for economic growth. However, start-up rates differ significantly between countries and within regions of the same country. A large empirical literature studies the reasons for this and attempts to identify the regional determinants of start-ups. In contrast,...

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International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery

Saxenian, AnnaLee - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri

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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naudï¿½ - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries

Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …

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The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone

Collier, Paul; Duponche, Marguerite - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper positions itself among the very rare microeconomic analyses on the consequences of civil war. Up to now, most analyses on this topic are based upon household surveys. The originality of the present study is that it investigates for the first time the likely predominant route by which...

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Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities … approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into … entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the …

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Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation: What is Missing in Turkey?

Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Elif - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour

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