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Understanding the role of entrepreneurship for economic growth
Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276805
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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database
van Stel, André J.; Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th … per capita income. This suggests that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276936
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A Chinese renaissance in an unremittingly integrating global economy
Das, Dilip K. - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 1, pp. 39-46
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Institutions and Economic Performance - To Grow or Not to Grow: Why Institutions Must Make a Difference
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 3-9
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696466
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Impeded industrial restructuring: The growth penalty
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2000
This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295598
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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; … - 2000
In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324382
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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited
Carree, Martin; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; … - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325146
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270564
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The knowledge filter, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
Carlsson, Bo; Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting … United States during and after World War II was converted into economic activity via incumbent firms in the early postwar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271771
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Entrepreneurship, economic growth and policy in emerging economies
Thurik, A. Roy - 2009
Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important element in the organization of economies. This emergence did not occur … countries embrace entrepreneurial energy. This led to the political mandate to promote entrepreneurship. Hence, a clear and … organized view is needed of what the determinants and consequences of entrepreneurship are. The present contribution tries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276873