Most extant research shows that female entrepreneurs are less likely to grow large firms and, in fact, don't want to … grow their firms as large as male entrepreneurs do. This study of 191 nascent entrepreneurs finds that neither men nor … women entrepreneurs consider firm growth a top priority for their emerging firms. These a priori ideas about growth and firm …

entrepreneurs' interactions with different categories of private equity investors, namely business angels (BAs) and formal venture … that growth paths depend strongly on the entrepreneurs being more or less able to simultaneously leverage BAs' and VCs …' financial as well as cognitive resources. The entrepreneurs ‘capability to do so, is shown to be dependent on their specific …

Entrepreneurs, creators of new firms, are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1-2% of the work … force starts a business in any given year. Yet entrepreneurs, particularly innovative entrepreneurs, are vital to the … competitiveness of the economy and may establish new jobs. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

curiosity among entrepreneurs. Key research objectives of the study were to empirically test how two independent constructs as … linking these three constructs. A multi-country survey was made on a sample of entrepreneurs from Slovenia, USA and Serbia …

A large and still growing body of literature suggests that entrepreneurship is of exceptional importance in explaining … balanced growth path level of entrepreneurs' innovative activities. …

over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …

aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …