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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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thinking about the economy in general and the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in particular, not only shape how … innovation and entrepreneurial activity are valued, but also the overall policy debate concerning innovation and entrepreneurship …
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This paper focuses on valuation issues and methods that are related to a closely-held entrepreneurial enterprise. This focus is motivated by the fact that the number of small closely held business start-ups, which we refer to broadly by the term entrepreneurial enterprises, continues to grow...
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Partnerships between universities and industrial firms can play a key role in enhancing competitiveness because they provide a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the academic organization where knowledge is created to the firm where it is transformed into innovative activity. We set...
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This paper shows how and why the Solow growth accounting framework is useful for linking entrepreneurship capital to … knowledge investments on economic growth. By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link … between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. Entrepreneurship is an important mechanism permeating the knowledge …
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Economic development practitioners and scholars recognize the link between universities and regional economic development. It is predicated on the spillover of knowledge from universities to commercialization. The literature has focused on the supply side, which involves university research and...
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This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...
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, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behavior. …
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...
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The term “entrepreneurship” apparently means different things to different people including scholars and thought … leaders. Because entrepreneurship is multifaceted, it is studied from many different perspectives, yet, that has fostered a … disparities and even contradictions about what is and is not entrepreneurship. Some have suggested a narrower and more defined …
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