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Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures
Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2009
Young firms with the ability to internationalize early and decisively have received much attention in recent academic discussion. However, relatively little is known about the underlying processes that enable them to skip several stages of the internationalization process. We contribute to this...
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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation. To analyze this question, the KfW/ZEW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323729
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263837
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Exploration and exploitation: the role of entrepreneurship and R&D in the process of innovation
Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - 2007
stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263851
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Entrepreneurship and innovation policy
Stam, Erik - 2008
What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263861
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264315
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265682
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Ready to leave the ivory tower? Academic scientists' appeal to work in the private sector
Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009
employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267108
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The use and effect of social capital in new venture creation: Solo entrepreneurs vs. new venture teams
Cantner, Uwe; Stützer, Michael - 2010
This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...
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