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Incubators, accelerators and regional economic development
Madaleno, Margarida; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; … - 2018
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are effective. This paper categorises accelerators and incubators within a larger family of co-location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916520
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Implications of the Polish 1999 administrative reform for regional socio-economic development
Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local … inclusiveness in the process of development is likely to be an important factor behind the stability of Poland's administrative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993171
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Bottom-up policies trump top-down missions
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2023
entrepreneurship requires many other actors - besides the entrepreneur - whose skills and abilities are necessary to realize an … framework that levels the playing field for potential entrepreneurs and encourages productive entrepreneurship. To promote this … foster innovation and, in the end, the welfare-enhancing productive entrepreneurship policymakers and scholars strive for. …
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187
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Catching up or lagging behind? : the long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019
From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126136
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Growing out of the crisis : hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128350
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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies
Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999
-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316912
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The effect of community-level socio-economic conditions on threatening racial encounters
Antecol, Heather (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders. We use unique data for a sample of active-duty Army personnel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777888
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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794055
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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
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