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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230889
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231657
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558130
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation: Complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559230
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The Workforce Composition of Young Firms and Product Innovation - Complementarities in the Skills of Founders and Their Early Employees
Mueller, Bettina - 2018
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935231
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271789
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R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68
This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046430
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Muppets and Gazelles: Political and Methodological Biases in Entrepreneurship Research
Nightingale, Paul; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2013
entrepreneurship since the 1980s within its historical context and highlights the significant methodological problems with its analysis … composition fallacy that assigns the benefits of entrepreneurship to the average firm. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098662
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516448
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486484