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growth trajectories that newly founded firms can take. While it turned out difficult to predict start size, the suggested … model could satisfactorily predict expected early growth. The results indicate that those nascent entrepreneurs expecting … high growth also expected larger start-size. Their goal was to make the future business their main income source. This was …
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In the words of Hubbard, Vetter and Little (1998, p. 252), 'systematic replication replaces piecemeal, untested results with useful findings that address practical problems.' We agree with this. We further hold that for empirical relationships to be really interesting and meaningful one should...
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This study examines nascent entrepreneurship by comparing individuals engaged in nascent activities (n = 380) with a … entry into nascent entrepreneurship, but only weakly for carrying the start-up process towards successful completion. …
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towards growth where cultural inertia gives way to technological progress led by established businesses. A human capital shock … where existing business expertise is less useful, in contrast, causes growth through the emergence of a new class of …
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, growth and employment', International Review of Applied Economics, 16(3), 265-276. [Available at http …
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The resource-based view of the firm has drawn attention to the role of human resources in building innovative capacity within firms. In 'high technology' firms, scientific capability is a critical factor in achieving international competitiveness. Science, however, is a costly business and many...
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more specifically the impact of human capital on per capita economic growth in transition economies in the Russian … economic growth. We estimate a system of linear and log-linear equations accounting for different time lags in the possible … impact of human capital on economic growth. …
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Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …
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This paper seeks to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of...
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