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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 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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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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Allocation and Productivity of Time in New Ventures of Female and Male Entrepreneurs

Verheul, Ingrid; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a model that distinguishes between effects of preferences and productivity on the number of working hours. Using data of 1,158 entrepreneurs we find that the preference for work time in new...

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