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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/10010329112
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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 Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010884341
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2005
entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271750
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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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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067475
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … endogenously via R&D results in knowledge spillovers. Such spillovers give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588033
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan; Audrestch, David; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created … endogenously results in knowledge spillovers that give rise to opportunities to be identified and exploited by entrepreneurs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645003
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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271793
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971