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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011
intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
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Does interdisciplinarity lead to higher employment growth of academic spinoffs?
Müller, Bettina - 2009
successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is … measured by employment growth. I find that team foundations have higher employment growth than single entrepreneurs. Team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299836
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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262745
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Disentangling the effects of new venture team functional heterogeneity on new venture performance
Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Stuetzer, Michael - 2010
Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271192
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Entstehung von akademischen Ausgründungen: Eine empirische Untersuchung zu fördernden und hemmenden Faktoren im Prozess der Gründungsvorbereitung
Schleinkofer, Michael - 2013
Nur ein Bruchteil der zu einer Gründung entschlossenen Personen gründet tatsächlich ein Unternehmen. Warum werden Geschäftsideen oftmals noch vor der formalen Gründung wieder aufgegeben? Welche Faktoren sind es, die Unternehmensgründungen fördern bzw. hemmen - sowohl mit Blick auf die...
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Entrepreneurship, Entry and Performance of New Businesses Compared in two Growth Regimes: East and West Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2004
The paper provides an outline of the concept of regional growth regimes and empirically illustrates the relevance of the concept. The empirical examples are entrepreneurship, entry and the performance of new businesses in East and West Germany. The differences of the factors determining the...
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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri - 2007
(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize …
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Religion and entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B.; Boente, Werner; Tamvada, … - 2007
for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263844
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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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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