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The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics : a review towards a new view

Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated …. It is moreover also because there is no unified scientific approach towards the role of entrepreneurship in economic …

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Spatial proximity and firm performance : evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - In: Regional studies 51 (2017) 5, pp. 688-700

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Technological innovation and inclusive growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2017

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

Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

imposes a 'tax' on entrepreneurship by channelling entrepreneurial talent into lobbying and bribery; by reinforcing male and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224596

Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Structural transformation in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS)

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Haraguchi, Nobuya - 2016

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The rise and fall of German innovation

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is contrasted with the post-World War II period. This latter...

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Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?

Naudé, Wim - 2024

scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of papers published in entrepreneurship has … break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken … remaining task facing the field of entrepreneurship may be how to confront its end. …

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...

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