Showing 1 - 9 of 9
We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335837
Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243470
Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584338
Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that … matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273479
Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772201
Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that … matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793609
Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the flow of … is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be persistent. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262279
Entrepreneurship in advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have anticipated an … upsurge in entrepreneurship, and expected an "entrepreneurial economy" to replace the post-WW2 "managed" economy. Instead of … inequality and rising energy costs, are also responsible. Implications for entrepreneurship scholarship are drawn. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220756
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596125