We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline … consider risk attitudes and goals and aspirations of entrepreneurs. Within each area, we separate studies by the type of … entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This …

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two … in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …

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 …

Platforms often have “crowds” of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …

Assessing the state of American entrepreneurship requires not simply counting the quantity but also the initial quality … cycles as a driver of high-growth entrepreneurship, our results highlight the role of economic and institutional conditions …

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …