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Kathleen Eisenhardt: recipient of the 2012 <Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 4, pp. 797-804

This article reviews the academic contributions of the 2012 receiver of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research … markets. Her work in the entrepreneurship field centers on strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies …, what she refers to as “high-velocity industries”. Her main empirical contribution to the entrepreneurship field is her work …

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …

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Agglomeration and innovation

Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014

Draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Vols. 5A and 5B This paper reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. The authors first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. They then discuss how...

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 2 (2015) 97, pp. 498-520

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with … damped entrepreneurship across several generations. Proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with reduced … entrepreneurship for cities in the 1970s and onward in industries unrelated to mining. We use historical mines as an instrument for our …

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktaktivierung - 2006

This paper empirically analyses whether the character-based approach which is based on the personality and on the human capital of business founders, al- lows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

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Risikobereitschaft und Unternehmenserfolg

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 29, pp. 409-411

aufweisen. Dies zeigt eine aktuelle empirische Studie. Sind die Unternehmer sehr risikoscheu oder aber besonders risikofreudig …

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