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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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2006-2020, to capture the relationship between new business density rate, as a proxy for entrepreneurship, and individuals … entrepreneurship is influenced by the skills, knowledge, and experience of the entrepreneurs, including their education, training, and …. When separating the EU countries from the perspective of their Innovation Index performance, the threshold effect was …
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For a cross-section of 123 European regions, a positive causal effect of generalised trust on innovation activity is … defined and discussed. The popular explanation for spatial clustering of innovation by "interregional knowledge spillovers" is … empirically tested. It is found that spatial clustering of innovation activity can be better explained by a positive influence of …
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We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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trust and civic norms from the World Values Surveys for a sample of 29 market economies. Memberships in formal groups …
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital influence innovation output. The novelty of the … innovation. Unlike many previous studies, this one uses the structural equation modelling approach instead of regression analysis … in order to take into account the relationships between the factors of innovation. Regional-level data from Eurostat …
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fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use … the level of entrepreneurship activity via individual and aggregated pathways and that the price elasticity of diverse …
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self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal …
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