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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? The impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...
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Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants from a Cross-Country Study
Block, Jörn - 2014
risk tolerance, the country's level of innovation output, and the administrative difficulty of starting a new business are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069066
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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …
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Post-Materialism as a Cultural Factor Influencing Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - 2012
The study of the determinants of entrepreneurship at the country levelhas been dominated by economic influences. The relative stability of differences in levels of entrepreneurship across coun-tries suggeststhat other forces such as certain institutional and/or cultural factors are at play. The...
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The Future of Capitalism : 'Un-Corporating' Corporate Governance
Fenwick, Mark - 2016
A corporate governance model built around hierarchical structures, in which authority and empowerment flows through the board of directors to management and eventually staff, and the board is responsible to shareholders (the owners) of a company, worked well in an era of industrial capitalism,...
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The Entrepreneurial University : A Debate
Baldini, Nicola - 2014
This paper reviews the literature on benefits and (potential) problems from university patenting and licensing activity, based on 109 papers published between 1980 to 2004. Reasons for university patenting activities include positive influence on researchers' careers, prestige and earnings;...
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Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity : Some Cross-Country Evidence
Bjørnskov, Christian; Foss, Nicolai J. - 2007
While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of...
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An Empirical Study of University Patent Activity
Ryan, CJ; Frye, Brian L. - 2018
. Academic institutions are typically charitable organizations, with the charitable purpose of promoting innovation, among other … things. Yet, academic institutions have responded to patent incentives by limiting access to innovation, in order to … increased the cost of innovation. This study suggests that educational institutions may have exacerbated that problem by …
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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Global award for entrepreneurship research
Henrekson, Magnus (contributor);  … - 2008
criteria for the selection of Prize candidates and Award Winning contributions. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Research …
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