Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the … in the length, content, and types of firms participating in the training programs evaluated. Many evaluations suffer from … low statistical power, measure impacts only within a year of training, and experience problems with survey attrition and …

taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market … integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies. It is then more difficult to protect the profits of incumbents from … entrepreneurial entry and pro-entrepreneurial policies make foreign entrepreneurs less aggressive. Using the World Bank Doing Business …

In industries with network effects, incumbents’ installed bases create barriers to entry that discourage entrepreneurs … from developing new innovations. Yet, entry is not the only commercialization route for entrepreneurs. We show that the … option of selling to an incumbent increases innovation incentives for entrepreneurs when network effects are strong and …

from the technology frontier, imitation activities are more important, and vertical integration is preferred. Closer to the …