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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … attendance of entrepreneurship classes in the same period. To account for a potential bias due to self-selection into … entrepreneurship classes, only individuals having no prior entrepreneurial intentions are analyzed. Our results indicate a stimulating …

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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - 2007

relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …

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Building a Better Rat Trap: Technological Innovation, Human Capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …

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The influence of leadership on academic scientists' propensity to commercialize research findings

Krabel, Stefan; Schacht, Alexander - 2012

Previous studies of organizations have highlighted that leadership and organizational performance have a strong and long-term impact on employee behavior in private firms. In this study, we analyze whether similar effects can also be observed in academia by examining the commercialization...

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Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2008

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available...

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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...

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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits-the Big Five-on an individual's decision to become self- employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...

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In the name of my parents: Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values

Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...

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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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Entrepreneurship,Growth, Regional Growth Regimes

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

suggests that entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development, and one that has long-run effects. …

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