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entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …
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We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using micro data from the US Census Bureau …. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans … effects (i.e., that people with more valuable homes are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to …
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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 …
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heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously … suggested: A higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of entrepreneurship …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …
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This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …
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With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
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