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In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally … entrepreneurs ; High Tech ; High Impact Firm ; Entrepreneurship …
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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 from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in … empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary …
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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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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …
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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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regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the … Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI). Originally the GEDI has been developed to measure national level of … entrepreneurship. The GEDI refers to the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on the twelve pillars of entrepreneurial …
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examines the literature on entrepreneurship and economic development creating a framework for promoting development through …
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