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Ethnic community involvement, entrepreneurial social capital, and business performance

Tata, Jasmine; Prasad, Sameer - In: Global Business and Economics Review 12 (2010) 1/2, pp. 151-170

Ethnic or immigrant social networks tend to influence the type of business that an ethnic entrepreneur starts, as well as the success or failure of the business. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that proposes that ethnic community involvement influences the configuration of ethnic...

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University Startups and Entrepreneurship: New Data, New Results

Jensen, Richard - Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame - 2012

research reveals several findings. We find that university entrepreneurship is more common in bad economic times and that … activity. Conditional on creating one startup, each additional TTO employee significantly increases university startups. …

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Business Incubation: The Case of the European Space Agency

Tavoletti, Ernesto; Cerruti, Corrado - In: DSI Essays Series 29 (2012)

We test a theoretical framework, based on four principles, that has been developed through a previous systematic literature review. The 'laboratories' that have been chosen in order to test the theoretical framework are the business incubators at the European Space Agency (ESA). The methodology...

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Latin American Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and their Firms: A Regional View and International Comparison

Kantis, Hugo; Federico, Juan; Trajtenberg, Luis A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs tend to face more difficult conditions in terms of resources and skills acquisition than...

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Debt financing among native- and immigrant-owned firms: empirical evidence from Swedish small business at start up stage

Yazdanfar, Darush; Abbasian, Saeid - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 422-434

This paper provides evidence on ethnic differences in bank debt financing among small Swedish firms at the start-up stage. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of small firms consisting of 2,814 native- and immigrant-owned firms for year 2008. The method of binary logistic...

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The Impact of New Firm Formation on Regional Development in the Netherlands

Stel, A.J. van; Suddle, K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2005

employment impact of new-firm startups is positive but that the immediate employment effects may be small in the Netherlands …

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Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Haque, Nadeem Ul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

Entrepreneurship is viewed by economists to be a combination of innovation and risk taking. When such activity thrives … benefit form growth and employment as well as throughopportunities for entrepreneurship. In Pakistan innovation and risk … protection and subsidy polic ies determined winners in the market place, entrepreneurship has been diverted to seeking government …

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Building Lean Startups at the Bottom of the Pyramid (Innovations Case Narrative: YouthBank and Generation Enterprise)

Chow, Clara; Rubin, Lily - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 8 (2013) 3-4, pp. 71-84

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The Impact of New Firm Formation on Regional Development in the Netherlands

van Stel, André; Suddle, Suddle, K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

employment impact of new-firm startups is positive but that the immediate employment effects may be small in the Netherlands …

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Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives

Audretsch, David B.; Stephan, Paula E. - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 1, pp. 97-107

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions we suggest lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent...

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