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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten - 2018
Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze start-ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the start-up process: (1) personal...
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Creativity over Time and Space
Serafinelli, Michel - 2019
and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe …
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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Naudé, Wim - 2016
to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older …, given that Europe faces rising unemployment, growing numbers of unassimilated migrants, and more pensioners - and all in the … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe …
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment : Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Basile, Roberto - 2011
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....
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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata
Kemeny, Tom - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2020
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....
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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
Garcia-Quevedo, Jose - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies' (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previous R&D experience is a...
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