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What turns knowledge into innovative products? The role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers

Block, Joern; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Haibo - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 693-718

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors, and their contribution to employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 719-733

This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...

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The strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures

Foreman-Peck, James; Zhou, Peng - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 1, pp. 163-187

The twentieth century United States provides a natural experiment to measure the strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures. Assuming immigrants bear the cultures of their birth place, comparison of revealed entrepreneurial propensities of US immigrant groups in 1910 and 2000 reflected...

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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth

Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 735-766

The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. While the importance of factor reallocations for growth is widely discussed, the role of entrepreneurs in managing these reallocations is currently not well...

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Property rights as a complex adaptive system: how entrepreneurship transforms intellectual property structures

Harper, David - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 2, pp. 335-355

This article aims to provide some elements of an evolutionary theory of property rights. It applies a systems-based capital-theoretic perspective to explain the formation and transformation of property rights structures. The approach emphasizes how entrepreneurs create capital combinations by...

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Schumpeter’s <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">Theory of Economic Development: 100 years of development

Becker, Markus; Knudsen, Thorbjørn; Swedberg, Richard - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22 (2012) 5, pp. 917-933

This article sheds light on the impact of Schumpeter’s Theory of Economic Development over the last 100 years, and identifies insights from that work that are less well-known, but that have the potential for informing current developments in evolutionary economics. We identify these insights...

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Industry innovativeness, firm size, and entrepreneurship: Schumpeter Mark III?

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Velde, Gerben - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 4, pp. 713-736

Emphasizing the dynamics in economies and industries, Schumpeter points to entrepreneurs carrying out ‘new combinations’. His work, and in particular the Theory of Economic Development, is often interpreted as praising individual entrepreneurs setting up new firms to contribute to an...

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Revolving doors: entrepreneurial survival and exit

Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21 (2011) 3, pp. 367-372

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Born to flip. Exit decisions of entrepreneurial firms in high-tech and low-tech industries

Cefis, Elena; Marsili, Orietta - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21 (2011) 3, pp. 473-498

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Uncertainty avoidance and the rate of business ownership across 21 OECD countries, 1976–2004

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, André; … - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17 (2007) 2, pp. 133-160

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