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This paper is about the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. Defining entrepreneurship as the … entrepreneurship at the regional level? Second, if clusters are associated with different levels of entrepreneurship, what explains … and empirical research to explain the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level. This paper uses the 97 …
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Population dynamics is a branch of life sciences dealing with the way populations are affected by the birth and death rates, the changes in the size and age composition of populations, and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes. This paper applies the Population...
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What is driving the declining quality of innovation-driven entrepreneurship? In this paper, we argue the growing … entrepreneurship industry is an important yet overlooked explanation. This rapidly growing industry has transformed the nature of … entrepreneurship and encouraged a particular form of low-quality entrepreneurship. It has done so by leveraging the Ideology of …
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are shown to be solved by verification through entry for sale. -- acquisitions ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; start …
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In this paper we examine to what extent market conditions facilitating start-up formation affect technical change and firms' profits. We consider a model in which R&D efforts of an incumbent firm generate partly tacit technological know-how embodied in a key R&D employee, who might use it to...
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...
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Despite evidence that delayed exit is a pervasive and consequential problem, relatively little is known about its causes. Moreover, the study of exit delay is confounded by the fact that behavioral theories arising in the literature on escalation of commitment and economic theories that...
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Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance.A discrimination is made...
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This paper analyzes the early development of new establishments evaluating the role of spatial selection and agglomeration. The analysis shows a clear and strong selection of more productive new establishments into larger regions, regardless of the foundation type. While at the end of the...
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