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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Management of knowledge workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

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 environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rodriguez, Daniel - 2023

well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …

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Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience

Caliendo, Marco; Rodriguez, Daniel - 2023

predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the … recognition of new business opportunities. Drawing upon the cumulative process model of creativity in entrepreneurship, we … hypothesize that divergent thinking has a lasting effect on post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes related to innovation and growth …

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim A. - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2009

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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