entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

Entrepreneurship is usually indentified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The … determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the … determining the incidence of entrepreneurship. We explore the creation of Special Civil Tribunals in the Brazilian state of São …

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

economy - in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of … various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship …. However, destructive entrepre-neurship plays an important role in many, if not most, economies. This paper addresses the …

Emerging literature shows that spatial differences in entrepreneurship tend to persist over longer periods of time. A … regional culture and a supporting environment in favor of entrepreneurship that particularly involves social capital. This … chapter summarizes the available empirical evidence on the regional persistence of entrepreneurship and elaborates in detail …

Supportive institutional environments help build the foundations for innovative and productive entrepreneurship. A few …