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A Golden Opportunity : The Gold Rush, Entrepreneurship and Culture
Stuetzer, Michael; Brodeur, Abel; Obschonka, Martin; … - 2022
We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …
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Social capital building and new business formation : a case study in Silicon Valley
Audretsch, David B.; Aldridge, Thomas Taylor; Sanders, Mark - In: International small business journal : researching … 29 (2011) 2, pp. 152-169
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Microfirms and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Schiersch, … - In: Small Business Economics 55 (2020) 4, pp. 997-1018
In the context of microfirms, this paper analyzes whether the link between the three aspects involving innovative activities—R&D, innovative output, and productivity—hold for knowledge-intensive services. With especially high start-up rates and the majority of employees in microfirms,...
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