We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but …

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale (NUTS-3) administrative data on immigrants' location in Italy, the … local presence of immigrant entrepreneurs (i.e. firms owned by foreign-born entrepreneurs) in the manufacturing sector, and … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …

an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship …