Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative … behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the … UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from the Business Structure Database (BSD), and the Community Innovation …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our …

Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …

We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of the British … data. …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …