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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870290
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986036
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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881435
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106956
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898724
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The 'Entrepreneurial Boss' Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices : A Role Model Story?
Rocha, Vera - 2016
Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985657
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Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success
Rocha, Vera - 2016
The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992732
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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013
entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed … is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. -- entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721327
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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development Over Time
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084662
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The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-Textual Information for Startup Performance Prediction
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2020
Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish firms and their addresses as well as their business purpose statements (BPSs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839061