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R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68
This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
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Introduction: The startup process
Acs, Zoltan J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de Economia 35, 2 Year 2008, pp. 121-132
Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven stage and the innovation-driven stage. Second, to examine the …
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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...
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Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 5, pp. 732-754
This paper examines innovation among very small firms and provides new insights into both internal and external … for the period 2000–2006, the following facts emerge: (i) in contrast to larger firms, innovation in micro firms with 1 … innovation among micro firms compared to other firms, (iii) affiliation to a domestically owned multinational enterprise group …
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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital markets …
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006
Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J.; Tracy, Spencer - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing "high-impact" companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2008
innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
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