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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital markets …

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Exploration and Exploitation - The Role of Entrepreneurship and R+D in the Process of Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R+D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …

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Balanced Skills and the City: An Analysis of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Skill Balance, Thickness and Innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

drive innovation. …

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Start-Ups and Employment Growth - Evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We use longitudinal data over a decade on start-ups and employment in Swedish regions and analyze the effect of start-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector on regional employment growth in the same sector and...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns...

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