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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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Foundations of high impact entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor) - 2008
; innovation ; finance ; policy ; leveraged startups …
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...
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The startup process
Acs, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132
Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … of the papers. -- entrepreneurship ; economic development ; startups public policy …
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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...
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High-tech immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltán J.; Tracy, Spencer - 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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The examination of the regional level entrepreneurship : the Spanish case
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; … - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of regional economic development by constructing a regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of economic and social development in the...
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Public policy to promote entrepreneurship : a call to arms
Acs, Zoltán J.; Åstebro, Thomas; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2016
failures: a central-payer healthcare would remove health-care related distortions affecting employment choices; greater STEM …
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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A model of destructive entrepreneurship
Desai, Sameeksha; Acs, Zoltán J.; Weitzel, Utz - 2010
The current research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive, and destructive activities. This process is theorized as driven by...
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