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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

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Blue Ocean versus Competitive Strategy: Theory and Evidence

van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; Burke, Burke, A.E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

innovation’ as the primary goal where firms must create consumer demand and exploit untapped markets. Empirical analysis has been …

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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment: New Insights into the Role of Gender

Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Grilo, I. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This paper investigates why women’s self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a two (probit) equation model. It makes a systematic...

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Genome-wide Association Studies and the Genetics of Entrepreneurship

Koellinger, Philipp; Groenen, Patrick; Thurik, Roy; van … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...

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Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder: The Role of Gender

Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Grilo, Grilo, I.; van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We investigate whether women and men differ with respect to the steps they take in the entrepreneurial process, distinguishing between five successive steps described by the following positions: (1) "never thought about it"; (2) "thinking about starting up a business"; (3) "taking steps to start...

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Explaining Female and Male Entrepreneurship at the Country Level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies

Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur simultaneously in all developed countries. Differences in growth rates are often attributed to differences in the speed with which countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This...

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership Across 21 OECD Countries, 1976-2004

Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; Wennekers, Wennekers, A.R.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across countries have attracted the attention of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural as well as economic influences are assumed to play a role. This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on...

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Encountered Problems and Outcome Status in Nascent Entrepreneurship

Thurik, Roy; van Gelderen, van Gelderen, A.M.; Patel, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

The relationship is investigated between outcome status and encountered problems in the business start-up process. Contrary to expectations, we find that starters do not differ from quitters in number and type of problems encountered, and that problems encountered generally do not affect outcome...

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Postmaterialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations

Thurik, Roy; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play. The objective of this paper is to explore how postmaterialism may explain these differences. A distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new...

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