intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …

share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on … the efficient number of entrepreneurs is bounded and changes in the course of economic development …

contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …