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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264224
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Gender differences in competitiveness, risk tolerance, and other personality traits: Do they contribute to the gender gap in entrepreneurship?
Bönte, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - 2011
In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … and nascent entrepreneurship among women and men. Moreover, women's considerably lower level of IEA contributes … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women's lower levels of competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291124
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most entrepreneurial of them all?
Bönte, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - 2010
process, which we call individual entrepreneurial aptitude (IEA), is an important determinant of potential entrepreneurship …. IEA is also a strong and robust predictor of entrepreneurial intention and nascent entrepreneurship, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291096
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most entrepreneurial of them all?
Bönte, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - 2010
process, which we call individual entrepreneurial aptitude (IEA), is an important determinant of potential entrepreneurship …. IEA is also a strong and robust predictor of entrepreneurial intention and nascent entrepreneurship, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758382
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Gender differences in competitiveness, risk tolerance, and other personality traits : do they contribute to the gender gap in entrepreneurship?
Bönte, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - 2011
In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … and nascent entrepreneurship among women and men. Moreover, women’s considerably lower level of IEA contributes … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women’s lower levels of competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405139
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Determinants and impact of entrepreneurship capital : the spatial dimension and a comparison of different econometric approaches
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Keilbach, Max C. - In: New directions in regional economic development : the …, (pp. 41-59). 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009348223
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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266651
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Entrepreneurs embrace competition: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field study
Urbig, Diemo; Bönte, Werner; Procher, Vivien D.; … - 2020
entrepreneurship, this study investigates whether potential and revealed entrepreneurs are more likely to seek competition than non …-entrepreneurs. We provide a conceptual framework that links entrepreneurship to three facets of individual competitiveness drawn from … economic, entrepreneurship, and psychological research: a desire to win, striving for personal development, and an enjoyment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648085
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Financial signaling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs
Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291111