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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
Cai, Hongbin - 2007
Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs …) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate …
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Entrepreneurial Reluctance : Talent and Firm Creation in China
Bai, Chong-En; Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin; Wang, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the universe of firm registration records in China. Within a college, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533414
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Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge : The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs
Link, Albert - 2009
This paper focuses on the innovative actions of entrepreneurs, namely their tendency to reveal the intellectual capital that results from their research efforts either in the form of public knowledge (publications) or private knowledge (patents). Using data collected by the National Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463850
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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453616
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Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
Bai, Jessica; Bernstein, Shai; Dev, Abhishek; Lerner, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510623
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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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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...
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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 …
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