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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard; von Graevenitz, Georg; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009

data from a compulsory entrepreneurship course at a German university. Using survey responses from 189 students ex ante and …Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises …

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2006

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Haeussler, Carolin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...

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