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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870291
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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego - 2019
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...
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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022
"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …
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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144388
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - 2013
entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077338
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318254
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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development : A Critical Review
Naudé, Wim - 2015
general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship.The implication is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016209
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Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : India's Informal Sector Firms
Gang, Ira N.; Khangembam, Indira; Sen, Kunal - 2021
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314985
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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