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This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of external finance shape both the...
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This paper summarizes the main results of the empirical research on self-employment dynamics —particularly entry and success— and discusses their possible implications on entrepreneurial policy effectiveness. The main goal of this study is to promote a debate on this topic, encouraging...
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In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado, 1996). To allow for firm heterogeneity between firm...
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incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … spawned from incumbents are not necessarily a threat; they can complement incumbents' production by commercializing knowledge … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of …
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An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … firm manages its rival's beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …
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