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entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper …
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Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...
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into entrepreneurship. I also find evidence that people are more likely to select the path of self-employment in the face …
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and entrepreneurship. It does so by looking at the importance of Marshallian specialization and Jacobian diversity …
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This paper focuses on how characteristics of regions pertaining to local information about product varieties and markets as well as networks for the transmission of information about innovation opportunities influence the arrival of innovation ideas to existing and potential entrepreneurs. We...
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the connection between entrepreneurship and growth at the regional level differs between the U.S. and Sweden. By … regressing annual entrepreneurship on regional employment growth (and controlling for other conceivable variables impacting … employment growth) entrepreneurship is shown to be positively and significantly associated with regional growth in both countries …
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During the last decades, enhancing entrepreneurship has emerged as commonly used policy- measure in order to improve … economic growth. However, is it true that entrepreneurship unambiguously can be claimed to improve economic growth? This paper … intends to review the empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurship on three measures of economic growth …
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of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries. …
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The general motivation for this paper is the current interest in globalization as a phenomenon that strongly affects the conditions of local economic development. Our purpose is to contribute to some of the current development aspects, in particular those that foster the evolution of...
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This paper investigates the role of knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. The paper explicitly discusses the role …
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