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 …

Among typical entrepreneurs, is the serial entrepreneur more likely to succeed? If so, why? We answer these two … taxable goods and services in the state of Texas. An entrepreneur is defined as the owner of a new business. A serial … entrepreneur is one who opens repeat businesses. The success of the business is measured by the duration over which the business is …

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

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 … well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …

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 …-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the novice, but also opens firms that are larger in terms of the initial …

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 …

Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting potential entrepreneurs around the world. Given the … important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research …

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial … quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …