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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …

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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Mapping the (In)visible College(s) in the Field of Entrepreneurship

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

Despite the vitality and dynamism that the field of entrepreneurship has experienced in the last decade, the issue of … environment’ of the field of entrepreneurship and to analyze the existence and characterization of (in)visible college(s) based on … entrepreneurship research. Based on more than a thousand papers published between 2005 and 2010 in seven core entrepreneurship journals …

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Understanding Incubator Value – A Network Approach to University Incubators

Roseira, Catarina; Ramos, Carla; Maia, Francisco - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

Abstract Networking represents a cornerstone for entrepreneurial action, nurturing relationships that provide access to necessary resources. Previous research shows that such relationships can be fostered as part of incubation processes. However, there is a lack of understanding of the...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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"I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Entrepreneurial potential in Business and Engineering courses … why worry now?

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2007

Research on entrepreneurship potential targeting university students is emerging. However, it is in general focused on …

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Network and firm antecedents of spin-offs: Motherhooding spin-offs

Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Tavares, Ana Teresa; … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006

defined in this paper, contributes to the study of entrepreneurship and network evolution. …

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Public-Private Partnerships and the Promotion of Collective Entrepreneurship

Silva, Mário Rui; Rodrigues, Hermano - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2005

framework of competitiveness policy, PPP are an adequate instrument to promote collective entrepreneurship. Through this … innovation. Collective entrepreneurship induced by PPP instrument has presented a clear bias toward the provision of services …

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