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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Gompers, Paul - 2006
This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill … further support for the role of skill in both entrepreneurship and venture capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466069
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Choosing Technology : An Entrepreneurial Strategy Approach
Gans, Joshua S. - 2020
A central premise of research in the strategic management of innovation is that start-ups are able to leverage emerging technological trajectories as a source of competitive advantage. But, if the potential for a technology is given by the fundamental character of a given technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481344
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470760
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Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L. - 1998
Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472003
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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993
This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474416
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
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 characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479519
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479602
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Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship
Ashraf, Nava - 2019
segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480311
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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480322
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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019
. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480392