. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

Motivated by evidence on the importance of incomplete information and networks in international trade, we investigate … accumulate networks of foreign contacts while working as employees in production or sales, then become entrepreneurs who sell … access to and use of the networks they accumulated. We report supportive results regarding this hypothesis from a pilot …

soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …

an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …”, where children obtain industry knowledge through their parents, is an important factor behind them …

aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …

a start-up, or the inventor's effort cost in development is lower in a start-up. We test the theory using data from the … with the predictions of our theory …

traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic … distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local knowledge sources in given technological areas are inadequate. This … teams – and in particular on teams in locations with insufficiently specialized local knowledge stocks – to facilitate …