This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional …-growth ventures. We find that institutions exert different effects on entrepreneurial entry and on the individual choice to launch …

sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development …

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment …

protection systems, labor market frictions, the business environment, and labor market institutions. However, self-employment in … the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

. To analyse this longer term issue, we highlight the necessarily slow pace of development of new informal institutions and …The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …-supporting institutions. But many of these developments have now taken place, yet entrepreneurial activity still remains low in many places …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …