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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272604
aging as one potential threat to the capacity for innovation and technological progress. However, evidence for age … occur? - What are the sources of possible age-dependency in innovative performance, in particular with respect to innovation … studies about the interplay between workforce age and innovation, this book suggests a new conceptual framework to study the …
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This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. By 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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046430
independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development. We argue that the … reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two 'revolutions'. If we distinguish between solo self …-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many …
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Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
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Innovationsprozesse festgelegt werden. (Innovation is seen as an important economic strategy for a company’s management. We discuss the … question how far works councils could positively influence a company’s innovation strategy in the long term and how far they … could encourage workers to participate in innovation processes. The objective of this article is, in particular, to analyse …
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influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
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This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
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