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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, butlittle research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importanceto understand whether entrepreneurship education raises … intentions to be entrepreneurialgenerally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418806
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522199
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The Effect of New Firm Formation on Regional Development over Time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags.We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864227
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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited –The Case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidenceregarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly,they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of newfirm formation on employment change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864232
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Direct and Indirect Effects ofNew Business Formation onRegional Employment
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - Technische Universität <Freiberg> - 2004
We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The maineffects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due tojob creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part ofthe debate about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864347
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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864984
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The Persistence of Regional New Business Formation-Activity over Time - Assessing the Potential of Policy Promotion Programs
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865030
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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865210
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Erklärung der individuellen Existenzgründungsabsicht:die „Theory of Planned Behavior“ alssozialpsychologisches Modell im Gründungskontext
Tegtmeier, Silke - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre <Lüneburg> / … - 2006
Mittels einer empirischen Untersuchung (n=208) bei Lüneburger Studierenden wird Ajzens„Theory of Planned Behavior …“ - eine einschlägige Theorie zur Erklärung spezifischenVerhaltens- auf die Erklärung der individuellen Gründungsabsicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868027
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Start-ups Defined as Portfolios of Embedded Options
Botteron, Pascal; Casanova, Jean-François - 2003
This paper shows the advantages of staged investments for venture capitalists.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005843484