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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
. -- strategic entrepreneurship ; multi-level analysis ; intellectual property protection ; growth aspirations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882956
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Innovation and social capital : across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
entrepreneurship and the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This is consistent with the need … to build social relationships in today’s networked economy. -- human capital ; social capital ; entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886841
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438892
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864527
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864991
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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865252
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 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 sevice sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864727
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Born Loca l: Two Avenues to Internationalization
Acs, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864585
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What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?
McMullen, Jeffery S.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
What an entrepreneurial opportunity is and from whence it comes are important issues for understanding how markets function and come into being.In addition to describing the forum held on the topic and summarizing the contributions of the articles that appear in the special issue, this article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864641
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The Entrepreneurship-Philantrophy Nexus: Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David; Phillips, Ronnie J.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864643