We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

entrepreneurs need outside financing for their projects and know more about the quality of their projects than outside investors …. Entrepreneurs have the choice between carrying out their entrepreneurial projects or working as an employee. It turns out that …

This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering … activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and spillover costs on incumbent firms. New entrepreneurs can also …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …This paper examines how entrepreneurs and incumbents differ in R&D strategies. We show that entrepreneurs have …. However, entrepreneurs may still select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …