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This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...
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from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
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, entrepreneurship education and culture. Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data from telephone interviews with 257,793 individuals … likely to have higher levels of economic development, higher business start-up costs, higher levels of entrepreneurship …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … between general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … created historically has been given back to the community to build many of the great social institutions that have paved the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
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economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
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-creating institutions yet wish to encourage knowledge-based entrepreneurship …We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to …
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, factory training, production, women's micro-credit collectives, distribution and project evaluation. The case focuses on the … relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …
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different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a driving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region …'s capacity to create new firms start-ups as the region's entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local embeddedness of …-based entrepreneurship capital is driven by local levels of knowledge creation and the acceptance of new ideas, indicating that local …
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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