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Mapping technologies to business models : an application to clean technologies and entrepreneurship
Dörr, Julian Oliver - 2022
Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required for the development and diffusion of more sustainable forms of production, consumption, mobility and housing. Unconstrained by past technological investments, entrants can...
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Green start-ups and the role of founder personality
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2022
Green start-ups play a vital role in the needed transition towards more environmentally sustainable economies. Yet our understanding of why some founders start green ventures and others do not remains incomplete. We build on the cognitive and decision-making perspectives on start-ups...
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Personal bankruptcy law, debt portfolios, and entrepreneurship
Mankart, Jochen; Rodano, Giacomo - 2015
worsened credit market conditions. In this paper, we construct a quantitative general equilibrium model of entrepreneurship to … market can still obtain secured credit. Therefore, they can run larger firms, which makes entrepreneurship more attractive …
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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999
In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …
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Local economic impacts of wind power deployment in Denmark
Gavard, Claire; Göbel, Jonas; Schoch, Niklas - 2022 - This version: October 21, 2022
An argument sometimes used to support renewable energy is that it may contribute to job creation. On the other hand, these technologies often face local opposition. On the case of Denmark, the country with the longest experience with wind power, the authors examine whether the installation of...
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The role of local embeddedness of transnational migrant start-ups in the COVID-19 crises : examples from the Berlin start-up ecosystem
Terstriep, Judith; David, Alexandra; Ruthemeier, Alexander - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment for transnational migrant start-ups. These changes have posed many challenges concerning altering strategic behaviour and approaches to driving business. We explored transnational migrant start-ups' embeddedness in translocal...
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Entrepreneurship capital and economic performance
Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max C. - 2002
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Founder personality and start-up subsidies
Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023
Start-up subsidies play an important role in supporting start-up innovation and performance. However, what characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as captured by the big five personality traits and...
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Does Wagner’s law ruin the sustainability of German public finances?
Priesmeier, Christoph; Koester, Gerrit B. - 2012
and GDP. For Germany, we find strong evidence for Wagner’s law throughout the whole period analyzed (1960-2007), while our … Wagner’s law that ruins the sustainability of public finances in Germany. Our findings underline the importance of the German …
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Cutting the credit line : evidence from Germany
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2015
finance and firm activity in Germany in more detail. In particular, we explore a novel data set that matches a full sample of …
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