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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837

Venturing beyond the marathon: the entrepreneurship of ultrarunning and the IAU world cup in Korea

Terjesen, Siri - 2008

entrepreneurship and grassroots-initiated mega-sporting events in Asia are discussed. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263859

Occupational choice and social contacts across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266664

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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The shadows of the past: how implicit institutions influence entrepreneurship

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment

Ács, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - 2007

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 … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271770

Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

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Venturing Beyond the Marathon: The Entrepreneurship of Ultrarunning and the IAU World Cup in Korea

Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

entrepreneurship and grassroots-initiated mega-sporting events in Asia are discussed...<br< …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864506