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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’?What might explain any differences …? And does education affect peoples’ occupationalchoices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US … labor forceparticipants. We show that education affects peoples’ decisions to become an entrepreneurnegatively. We show …
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human capital and innovation are important for growth entrepreneurship,then higher education should have a significant role …Entrepreneurship is a hot topic both in academic and policy circles.1 There is a growingrecognition that … entrepreneurship is a driving force in economic growth and development in bothestablished and emerging economies. There is also an …
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The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...
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This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...
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Aus der internationalen wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion und damit auch aus der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion Deutschlands ist das Thema Unternehmensgründung1 mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die große Bedeutung, die Unternehmensgründungen für eine Volkswirt-schaft zugeschrieben...
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Nur etwa ein Drittel der Ausgründungen aus der Wissenschaft nutzen explizite Forschungsergebnisse. Der weit überwiegende Teil nutzt allgemeine Kenntnisse für die Gründung. Dies ist ein Phänomen, das bisher in der Literatur und in der Praxis kaum beachtet wurde. Der Artikel nähert sich dem...
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This paper investigates entrepreneurship of migrants and their location choice in attempt to draw connections between … migration and economic development, especially the role of business formation in rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … background ofthese individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. Weobserve a unique increase …
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entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
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The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly … aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation of newcombinations of resources, and focuses on the nature of …-operative enterprises. Social entrepreneurship may be mapped on such a typology as acategory of entrepreneurship that primarily (a) is …
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