We examine whether Europe has an “entrepreneurship deficit” compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …

. As with regular entrepreneurship, however, the value of intrapreneurial activity depends on the firm-specific and …

Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the … motion by entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-a-vis entrepreneurship …. Professor Kirzner's main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan …

Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only … indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals’ relative well-being. We theorize on the nuanced relationship … between entrepreneurship and equality of eudaimonic well-being through the lens of New Institutional Economics. Drawing on …

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …