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 …

investigate the reasons behind such a significant lag of the resource-rich countries in entrepreneurship. Panel data for more than … 80 countries from 2004-2009 shows that higher dependence on resource rents reduces entrepreneurship activities. The …

Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent … entrepreneurs is combined with regional characteristics. Firstly, considering only the micro data the estimates imply that the … potential drivers of nascent entrepreneurs are entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial learning, and parental self …

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 …

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of … native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on …. Immigrant entrepreneurs are less than half as likely to found a company in a knowledge-intensive industry as native …

I present a theory on the relationship between educational choice and entrepreneurship in a labour market with …-ability individuals choose to quit school and become entrepreneurs. Using a comprehensive set of Norwegian register data, I find that this … entrepreneurship rates in the population. …

rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk … entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer … as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. …