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The relation between economic development and business ownership revisited

Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, … - 2007

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...

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The rise of the entrepreneurial economy and the future of dynamic capitalism

Thurik, Adriaan R.; Stam, Erik; Audretsch, David B. - In: Technovation : the international journal of … 33 (2013) 8/9, pp. 302-310

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

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Does entrepreneurship reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, … - 2001

knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic … particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …

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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, A. R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2005

entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across … subsequent stages of development. Regressing GEM's 2002 data for nascent entrepreneurship in 36 countries on the level of … taxes (+) and population growth (+). The results suggest that a 'natural rate' of nascent entrepreneurship is to some extent …

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, A. R.; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 24 (2005) 3, pp. 293-309

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle : nascent entrepreneurship can have some predictive power over the business cycle

Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2014

Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …

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Impeded industrial restructuring : the growth penalty

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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