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Risky business : venture capital, pivoting and scaling

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024

The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups’ decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...

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Entrepreneurship, development, and the spatial context: Retrospect and prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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Large scope business sector reforms: Has the Swedish business sector become more entrepreneurial than the U.S. business sector?

Andersson, Fredrik; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2016

Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast …, using detailed Swedish employer-employee data over the period 1990-2013, we find no decline in Swedish entrepreneurial … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …

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Migrant entrepreneurship and new urban economic opportunities

Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha; Baycan Levent, Tüzin - 2009

systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …

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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam

Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009

particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic … generations. The empirical data of our study is based on in-depth personal interviews. We employed a recently developed …

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