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Renaissance of Entrepreneurship? Some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany

Boegenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no … prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of entrepreneurship at the margins seems to be a wide field. It highlights not only … the broad margins of entrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on the …

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Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Organization of Work

Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007

This paper presents an explicit model of the entrepreneur’s role in organizing the work undertaken by employees. The model assumes that agents vary in their ability to carry out this task, and so in one sense the model is a special case of Lucas’ [Bell Journal of Economics, 9, pp. 508-523,...

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Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis and Postsocialism

Grabher, Gernot; Stark, David - In: Regional Studies 31 (1997) 5, pp. 533-544

evolutionary potentials. Its starting premise is that the actual unit of entrepreneurship is not the isolated individual …, erkundet dieser Artikel ihre evolutiona¨ren Potentiale. Er geht davon aus, dass Entrepreneurship nicht auf der Ebene isolierter …

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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities

Acs, Zoltan; Armington, Catherine - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 8, pp. 911-927

Acs Z. J. and Armington C. (2004) Employment growth and entrepreneurial activity in cities, Regional Studies38, 911-927. Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole US...

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Closing the Regional Equity Gap? A Critique of the Department of Trade and Industry's Regional Venture Capital Funds Initiative

Mason, Colin; Harrison, Richard - In: Regional Studies 37 (2003) 8, pp. 855-868

MASON C. M. and HARRISON R. T. (2003) Closing the regional equity gap? A critique of the Department of Trade and Industry's regional venture capital funds initiative, Reg. Studies 37 , 855-868. The UK Labour Government has provided support for the establishment of regional venture capital funds...

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Competence in Health Care - An Industrial Systems Analysis Using Competence Bloc Theory to Compare European and US Health Care

Eliasson, Gunnar; Eliasson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

), discouraging innovative product competition and entrepreneurship. The larger part of cost escalation in US health care can be …

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Entreprenörskap, industriell dynamik och ekonomisk tillväxt

Carlsson, Bo - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

Huvudtesen i denna studie är att innovationer driver den ekonomiska utvecklingen, att innovationer skapas i teknologiska system och omvandlas till ekonomisk verksamhet i kompetensblock, och att industriell dynamik uppstår i konfrontationen mellan utbudssidan (teknologiska system) och...

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Income taxes and the probability to become self-employed: The case of Sweden

Hansson, Åsa - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

economic growth. Given the importance of entrepreneurship and small business enterprises it is not surprising that policy … discussed, is how to design tax policies that stimulate start-ups and entrepreneurship. Existing knowledge about taxes’ effect …

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Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Ratioinstitutet - 2008

High-growth firms (HGFs) are critical for net job creation and economic growth. We analyze HGFs using the theory of competence blocs, linking firm growth to property rights and the interaction of complementary expertise. Specifically, we discuss how the institutional framework affects the...

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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden

Nykvist, Jenny - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …

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