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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297253
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869676