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What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....
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In this paper we discuss the relationship between economic growth and natural resources at a global level, taking into account geography. With this aim, our model integrates elements of the theories of endogenous growth, natural resources and new economic geography. We find that an increase in...
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affecting employee entrepreneurship for aggregate innovation and growth. …
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entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different effects of start-up activity on regional development. Therefore, we examine … the growth implications rural entrepreneurship might have on the local economy. Our results suggest that new business … counties. The results also unveil that the often-cited inverse U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurship and GDP growth is …
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economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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This paper utilizes German tax data to present evidence about the direct and indirect effects of new firm formation. Cohort analysis is applied to investigate survival, sales, inputs, and value added of start-up firms. Most drop-outs occur in the early years. We show that start-up...
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promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
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credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …
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performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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