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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …
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underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …
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We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …
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This study examines gender differences in the social impact and commercial motives for academic entrepreneurship using … the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) program. I-Corps provides experiential entrepreneurship … are more interested in pursuing commercialization and entrepreneurship activities when they are tackling societal problems …
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