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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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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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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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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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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...

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