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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 …
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A large and still growing body of literature suggests that entrepreneurship is of exceptional importance in explaining … entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …
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of enhanced entrepreneurial innovation. To this end, a literature review was carried out in order to develop a research … framework with factors related to imitation predicting entrepreneurial innovation. Moreover, managerial skills and … entrepreneurial skills were incorporated as predictors of entrepreneurial innovation. In this respect, a structured questionnaire was …
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Innovation often takes place in entrepreneurial ecosystems. We use the history of the Silicon Valley venture capital … the higher rates of entrepreneurship observed in common law countries. …
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-driven entrepreneurship in the modern sector. The model shows how opportunity-driven entrepreneurship can drive structural transformation … through innovation, provision of intermediate inputs and services (which permits greater specialization in manufacturing), and … by increasing employment and productivity in both the modern and traditional sectors. -- entrepreneurship ; economic …
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Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics...
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925818
We present a theory of entrepreneurial behavior that explores the relationship between overconfidence and successful firm outcomes, such as acquisition or IPO. In our model, increasing overconfidence produces two conflicting effects on the probability of a successful outcome: it not only induces...
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This paper investigates the influence of social capital on young firms' financing arrangements. Using a sample of U.S. start-ups, I find that social capital, as captured by secular norms and social networks in the entrepreneur's county, increases access to outside financing and reduces reliance...
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