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Entrepreneurship and innovation policy
Stam, Erik - 2008
continues with a study on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Netherlands in an international and historical perspective …What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263861
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276993
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291830
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291838
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547915
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568848
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The role of reciprocation in social network formation, with an application to blogging
Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2012
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks. We follow the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year and investigate the extent to which initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. We adapt a standard capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291821
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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the Internet: A natural field experiment
Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2013
The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the eect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323896
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Reciprocal attention and norm of reciprocity in blogging networks
Gaudeul, Alexia; Peroni, Chiara - 2010
Bloggers devote significant time not only producing content for others to read, watch or listen to, but also paying attention to and engaging in interactions with other bloggers. We hope to throw light not only on the factors that gain bloggers significant readership and lively interactions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267090
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Digital technology and the allocation of ownership in the music Industry
Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Regner, Tobias - 2009
We apply the property rights theory of Grossman-Hart-Moore in the music industry and study the optimal allocation of copyright between the artists who create music and the labels who promote and distribute it. Digital technology opens up a role for new intermediaries. We find that entry of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267103