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What turns knowledge into innovative products? : the role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers
Block, Joern H. (contributor);  … - 2009
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What turns knowledge into innovative products? : the role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers
Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zhou, Haibo - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 23 (2013) 4, pp. 693-718
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, Jörn - 2013
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095638
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Globalization, entrepreneurship and the strategic management of regions
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - In: The role of SMEs and entrepreneurship in a globalised …, (pp. 14-40). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899466
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The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development
Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 39 (2012) 3, pp. 627-643
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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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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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
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The contribution of business ownership in bringing down unemployment in Japan
Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2006 - : This version: July 2008
The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …
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The lag structure of the impact of business ownership on economic performance in OECD countries
Carree, Martin Anthony (contributor);  … - 2006 - This version: August 2006
This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
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