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Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow …
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whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial … entrepreneurship can cause and resolve extreme events, the immediate and long-run impacts of extreme events on entrepreneurship, and … equilibrium model to provide several conjectures on the impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurship and derive policy recommendations …
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household income. Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … entrepreneurship, and contrast this with the post-World War II period. This latter period, although it contained the German economic … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with …
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entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent … job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self …, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and …
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