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 …

opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … entrepreneurs. Our results show that there is a strong relationship between knowledge spillovers and new venture creation. …Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …

study draws on a sample of US nascent entrepreneurs actively attempting to start new ventures. Controlling for a number of … moderately wealthy nascent entrepreneurs. However, wealth appears to have no effect on venture creation for those managing to …

the service sector. By incorporating knowledge spillovers through a geographical variation model for Labor Market Areas …

The importance of liquidity constraints as one of the main entry barriers to entrepreneurship has been recently put in … question. Hurst and Lusardi (2004) show that the probability of transition to entrepreneurship is inelastic along most of the … entrepreneurship. This paper challenges this view. I estimate a life cycle model of occupational choice that includes human capital …

that these “entrepreneurial diffusers”, by potentially passing on entrepreneurial knowledge and institutional wisdom, can … entrepreneurship, which is critical to the sustainability of a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem …