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An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
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, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such asHinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … of the caste systeminfluence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behavior... …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a … region’s capacity to create new firms start-ups as the region’s entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local … knowledge-based entrepreneurship capital is driven by local levels of knowledge creation and the acceptance of new ideas …
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Economic growth has been a major preoccupation of economists, dating back at least to Adam Smith. William Stanley Jevons, for example, posited a growth theory based on the activity of sunspots. Robert Solow took a less exotic approach to explaining economic growth...
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This study examines the prevalence and determinants of the commercialization of research by university scientists funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Because the two publicly available modes of scientist commercialization - patents and Small Business Innovation Research...
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knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …
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Der Europäische Rat von Lissabon hat ein klares strategisches Ziel für die Europäische Union gesetzt: "Die Europäische Union soll zum wettbewerbsfähigsten und dynamischsten wissensbasierten Wirtschaftsraum der Welt gemacht werden - einem Wirtschaftsraum, der fähig ist, ein nachhaltiges...
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entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. .. …
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