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Location Choices of Graduate Entrepreneurs

Larsson, Johan - 2017

We review complementary theoretical perspectives on location choices of university graduate entrepreneurs derived from … location choice perspectives. Overall, 63% of graduate entrepreneurs start businesses locally in their region of graduation … the graduate was born locally or has university peer entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial family members in the region of …

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University Knowledge Spillovers & Regional Start-up Rates: Supply and Demand Side Factors

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl; Frederiksen, Lars - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

This paper investigates regional start-up rates in the knowledge intensive services and high-tech industries. Integrating insights from economic geography and population ecology into the literature on entrepreneurship, we develop a theoretical framework which captures how both supply- and...

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University Knowledge Spillovers & Regional Start-Up Rates : Supply and Demand Side Factors

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl; Frederiksen, Lars - 2014

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Growth Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Firms in Sweden

Efendic, Nedin - 2016

Despite the burgeoning literature on immigrant entrepreneurship, there is a dearth of research on the social and economic factors shaping the performance of immigrant-run firms. Drawing upon human and social capital theory and assimilation theory, we investigate differences in performance...

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A Little Bit of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing : Entrepreneurial Experience and New Venture Disengagement

Toft-Kehler, Rasmus - 2016

continue working on or disengage from their ventures. We theorize and test how entrepreneurs with varying levels of experience … entrepreneurs are more likely to quit their ventures, while moderately experienced entrepreneurs are more likely to persist in their …

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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

contingent on the technology dependence of industries, forming the landscape for technology entrepreneurs to launch and grow new …

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Emergence of Firms: A Sociogeographic Demand Side Perspective

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

This paper presents an analysis of regional start-up rates in the knowledge intensive services and high-tech industries. To supplement prevailing frameworks focusing mainly on supply-side economic factors, we integrate insights from economic geography and population ecology to the...

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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues

Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

In considering firm succession as the acts of both entrepreneurial exit and entry, this paper adds to work that seeks to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession research over the past 35 years and identify seven...

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The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spill-Overs: Performance Differences between University Spin-Offs and Corporate Spin-Offs

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Wright, Mike - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

While much prior research has focused upon how the Technology Transfer Offices and other contextual characteristics shape the level of university spin-offs (USO), there is little research on entrepreneurial potential among individual academics, and to the best of our knowledge, no comparative...

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Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer Of Family Firms: Short Term and Long Term Performance

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Hellerstedt, Karin; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

We contrast the performance consequences of intra-family vs. external ownership transfers. Investigating a sample of all private family firms in Sweden that went through ownership transfers during ten years, we find family firms transferred to external owners outperforming those transferred...

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