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We investigate the reasons for the pronounced regional differences of new business formation after the transformation from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions that had a well-qualified workforce and a relatively high...
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in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … is the antithesis to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurship model. We show that Mittelstand is more than a small and medium … the Mittelstand is an excellent example of everyday entrepreneurship and a vibrant segment of economy which is also …
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entry strategies. The four main groups of entry strategies are independency entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship …, spin-out entrepreneurship and necessity entrepreneurship. The results indicate that firms conducting R&D continuously start … new market opportunities as well as spin-out entrepreneurship exhibit a higher initial size while start-ups established …
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Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …
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We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …
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We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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