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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
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This study contributes to the debate on VC-related policies that aim to support the growth of young high-tech firms in the EU. The study provides a systematic review of the results of 22 firm-level studies that estimate causal effects of VC using counterfactual impact evaluation methods and data...
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Based on 1182 dyads of German new ventures and venture capitalists involved in a financing round between 2002 and 2007, we examine the impact of spatial proximity on the likelihood of an investment. We find that with each triplication of journey time the relative likelihood of an investment...
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Over the past ten years, private equity and venture capital have played an increasingly important role in the European economy. In parallel to the increase in investments, contribution of the private equity and venture capital industry to employment in Europe has grown. Against this background,...
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The resource-based view is suggested as a useful concept to shed light on the particular challenges of high potential companies on their way to building a thriving and growing company. In order to be able to apply the theoretical constructs of the resource-based view in the present context, a...
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. Notwithstanding that entrepreneurship is fundamentally a braindriven phenomenon, entrepreneurship research based on neuroscience … state of neuroscience's use in entrepreneurship research, this position paper reflects on the future implications that the … utilization of neuroscience brings to entrepreneurship research and cognition. To articulate this exercise, I present the so …
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Entrepreneurship education holds the potential to mitigate unemployment and boost prosperity, yet emotions, one of its …, and vice versa. Across entrepreneurship education, the role of emotions as learning drivers is acknowledged but barely … of the empirical evidence that touches upon the subject of entrepreneurship education and emotions. From the analysis …
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field of entrepreneurship remains unexplored. To address these issues, the author draws from entrepreneurship research and … hormonal mechanisms in entrepreneurship theory and practice. To further articulate a research agenda, the author reviews the …-driven entrepreneurship research and a research agenda to advance the integration of neuroscience tools and technologies in entrepreneurship …
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Innovative business models supported by digital technologies, together with the widening connectivity and data collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of...
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between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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