entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …

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

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among …

access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

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 …

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 … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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 …

In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what … for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in …