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Croissance des jeunes entreprises et territoires

Moati, Philippe; Mazars, Marjorie; Pouquet, Laurent - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 113 (2006) 1, pp. 4-4

This paper analyses the influence on the young firms? growth of the characteristic of their area of location. The location can be considered as a pool of resources, outlets and access to specific coordination devices. The effect of a large number of characteristics of regions is tested through a...

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Diversity as a motive for entrepreneurship?: The case of gender, culture and ethnicity

Alexandre-Leclair, Laurice - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 157-175

Diversity is increasingly considered as a motive for entrepreneurship. In our article, we set the hypothesis that … one about the link between culture, ethnicity and entrepreneurship and the other one about gender and entrepreneurship. We … also discuss the last study led by OECD (2012) on gender entrepreneurship. Our article reveals that culture and ethnicity …

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Innovation economics and the role of the innovative entrepreneur in economic theory

Courvisanos, Jerry; Mackenzie, Stuart - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 41-61

Innovation economics is poorly defined due to a plethora of meanings to innovation, and each having a distinctive diverse connection to economic analysis. This crucial aspect of economic development is only weakly integrated into the main body of economics. An excursion through the history of...

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Proximity relationships and entrepreneurship: some reflections based on an applied case study

Torre, André - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 83-104

The aim of this article is to draw some lines about the application of proximity analysis in business relations, be there face to face exchanges or distant relations, with a peculiar attention to innovative behaviors, whether they imply local interactions, virtual exchanges or mobility of white...

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Low-tech <span style='font-style: italic;'>vs</span> high-tech entrepreneurship: A study in France and Australia

Reboud, Sophie; Mazzarol, Tim; Soutar, Geoffrey - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 121-141

In this paper, we examine the nature of innovation within small firms across two OECD countries with a particular focus on the differences between firms with low R&D intensity and those with high R&D intensity. Drawing on a sample of small to medium enterprises (SME) who were engaged in the...

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Localization, innovation and entrepreneurship: an appraisal of the analytical impact of Marshall's notion of industrial atmosphere

Ravix, Jacques-Laurent - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n°14 (2014) 2, pp. 63-81

The purpose of the paper is to appraise the impact of Marshall?s ideas on today?s analysis of localized industrial activities, with a special focus on his vision of the entrepreneur?s action on the emergence of local industrial atmosphere. The first section uses Marshall?s approach to industrial...

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Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov transitions across the business cycle

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus - In: PharmacoEconomics 4 (2014) 1, pp. 51-87

In this paper we study labor market transitions among self-employment, gainful employment, and unemployment across the business cycle comparing the performance of migrants and natives and controlling for individual characteristics. The Markov chain specification we use is an appropriate...

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Survival Analysis of Small Informal Businesses in South Africa, 2007–2010

Ligthelm, Andre - In: Eurasian Business Review 1 (2011) 2, pp. 160-179

Annual surveys were conducted among a small business panel of 300 businesses during the four-year period 2007 to 2010 aimed at examining small business survival and mortality. By contrasting the profiles of successful businesses with those that closed their doors, a second objective was also...

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Industry innovativeness, firm size, and entrepreneurship: Schumpeter Mark III?

Dolfsma, Wilfred; Velde, Gerben - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 4, pp. 713-736

Emphasizing the dynamics in economies and industries, Schumpeter points to entrepreneurs carrying out ‘new combinations’. His work, and in particular the Theory of Economic Development, is often interpreted as praising individual entrepreneurs setting up new firms to contribute to an...

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The gendering of entrepreneurship context

Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2014

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

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