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Growth, inequality and innovation: A CGE analysis of India
Ojha, Vijay P.; Pradhan, Basanta K.; Ghosh, Joydeep - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 6, pp. 909-927
This paper probes into the growth and distributional consequences of four basic policy options emanating from the three sources of economic growth, namely, physical capital, human capital and technological progress, with the help of a computable general equilibrium model of India. The simulation...
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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis
Poschke, Markus - 2013
Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221558
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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055295
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2014
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709252
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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989271
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Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and the Impact of Human Capital
Madsen, Henning; Neergaard, Helle; Ulhøi, John P. - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to address selected aspects of human capital in association with the entrepreneurial process in technology-based new ventures. Until recently, research investigating the founding of new businesses has mainly focused on the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223842
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On the Sources of Entrepreneurial Talent in Italy : Tacit vs. Codified Knowledge
Federici, Daniela; Ferrante, Francesco; Vistocco, Domenico - 2007
codified knowledge determine the returns on different occupational choices in different environments. The data are drawn from … privileged access to tacit knowledge, thus confirming previous analyses on the role of social learning (e.g. Guiso and Schivardi …, 2005). On the other hand, we show that the returns on codified knowledge in entrepreneurial activities increase in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225266
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Financial literacy and new business entry
Skica, Tomasz; Mikuš, Juraj; Holienka, Marian - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 42-66
The issue of the relationship between financial literacy and entrepreneurship is still not a fully explored research area. On the one hand, there are common views that financial literacy and education in finance are necessary in every individual's life, and that an insufficient level of finan-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368193
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Competences necessary for a social entrepreneur : a case study of Latvia
Sannikova, Aija; Vevere, Velga; Titko, Jelena - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 24 (2023) 2, pp. 604-612
the social entrepreneur him/herself. The present research aims to identify the general basic knowledge, skills and … partners – university teaching personnel – conducted in Latvia. The research found that there were areas of general knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502816
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299472