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From small business promotion to creating an entrepreneurial society
Audretsch, David B. - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 3-6
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Benchmarking Strategies and Methodologies of National, European and International R&D Programmes, to Assess and Increase Their Impact on Innovation (ImpLore). Report to Lot 2 of Eu...
Breitfuss, Marija; Filippidou, Sophia; Goetz, Marta; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527542
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SME taxation in Europe: An empirical study of applied corporate income taxation for SMEs compared to large enterprises. CIP Programme 186/PP/ENT/CIP/12/F/S01C24
Spengel, Christoph; Hausemer, Pierre; Bergner, Sören; … - 2015
This report analyses tax incentives for SMEs in 20 EU countries and five non-EU countries between 2009-2013. Its findings and recommendations are based on a review of tax codes, modelling of tax burdens using two different models, a descriptive analysis of company financial ratios, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390417
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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments
Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005
This paper uses 2004 survey data from the 15 old EU member states and the US to explain country differences in latent and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates includes the perception by respondents of administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276807
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Thurik, A. Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2005
Determinants from different streams of literature and spanning different disciplines are used to explain entrepreneurial decisions. A multinomial logit model and survey data from the old 15 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the US are used to establish the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276808
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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005
entrepreneurial engagement levels. Country effects suggest a clear underperformance of Europe relative to the US in less mature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276809
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Innovation Barriers across Firms and Countries
Hölzl, Werner; Janger, Jürgen - 2012
This paper studies differences in the perception of innovation barriers between innovative and non-innovative firms for 18 EU countries. The countries are grouped by their distance to the technological frontier using Community Innovation Surveys for the years 2002-2004 and 2004-2006. The results...
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The effect of financial development on the investment cash flow relationship: cross-country evidence from Europe
Becker, Bo; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2006
We investigate financing constraints in a large cross-country data set covering most of the European economy. Firm level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive on average, controlling for country...
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Ageing in Europe: Supporting policies for an inclusive society
Börsch-Supan, Axel (contributor);  … - 2015
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a...
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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation
Kohnert, Dirk - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from … established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural … exist trading diasporas which have a generally enhanced innovative capacity vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the …
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