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Growing out of the crisis : hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
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Growing out of the crisis : hidden assets to Greece's transition to an innovation economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
Greece’s currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low...
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
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Government, Venture Capital and the Growth of European High-Tech Entrepreneurial Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2014
Using a new European Union-sponsored firm-level longitudinal dataset, we assess the impact of government-managed (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) funds on the sales and employee growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Our results show that the main statistically robust and...
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2016
This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect' of founders' human capital on entrepreneurial ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential injections and losses...
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca; Jensen, Paul H.; Murtinu, Samuele - 2014
This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect’ of founders’ human capital on entrepreneurial ventures’ performance. More specifically, we empirically explore the impact of entrepreneurs’ human capital on a firm’s sales growth performance by disentangling the...
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What drives the dynamics of employment growth in firms? : evidence from East Africa
Atwine, Blessing; Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Nnyanzi, John Bosco - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-25
This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific and business environment characteristics. Using a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise survey dataset and pooled Ordinary Least Squares estimation...
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Staying in or stepping out? : growth strategies of second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs
Pruthi, Sarika; Tasavori, Misagh - In: International business review : the official journal of … 31 (2022) 5, pp. 1-15
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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012
deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …
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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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