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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis
Poschke, Markus - 2013
Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221558
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709252
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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989271
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Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and the Impact of Human Capital
Madsen, Henning; Neergaard, Helle; Ulhøi, John P. - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to address selected aspects of human capital in association with the entrepreneurial process in technology-based new ventures. Until recently, research investigating the founding of new businesses has mainly focused on the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223842
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Financial literacy and new business entry
Skica, Tomasz; Mikuš, Juraj; Holienka, Marian - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 42-66
The issue of the relationship between financial literacy and entrepreneurship is still not a fully explored research area. On the one hand, there are common views that financial literacy and education in finance are necessary in every individual's life, and that an insufficient level of finan-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368193
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299472
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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263804
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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Skill Composition and Regional Entrepreneurship : A Comparative Study between Germany and Portugal
Grimpe, Christoph; Mendonça, Joana - 2009
knowledge spillovers between similar firms, the latter argues that diversity provides more opportunities for cross … relationship for Germany and Portugal. Both countries, though member states of the European Union, are fairly different from each … considerably. While it turns out that in Portugal firm entries are positively affected by a high concentration of skills, it is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201171
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230889