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Publishing Sustainability Research Visually: A Film about the Opportunities and Challenges of a Rural Entrepreneurship Initiative in Kenya

Ness, Barry; Akerman, Ann - In: Challenges in Sustainability 1 (2013) 2, pp. 80-81

We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability knowledge is often not only relevant for those in...

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Animal Spirits Meets Creative Destruction

Francois, P.; Lloyd-Ellis, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We show how a Schumpeterian process of creative destruction can induce coordination in the timing of entrepreneurial activities across diverse sectors of the economy.Consequently, a multi-sector economy, in which sector-specific, productivity improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking...

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How and Why Does Knowledge Spill Over? The Case of Biotechnology

Audretsch, David B; Stephan, Paula E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent career...

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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...

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Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives

Audretsch, David B.; Stephan, Paula E. - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999) 1, pp. 97-107

This paper sheds light on the questions, Why does knowledge spill over? and How does knowledge spill over? The answer to these questions we suggest lies in the incentives confronting scientists to appropriate the expected value of their knowledge considered in the context of their path-dependent...

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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?

Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper we investigate an example of a very widely applied model for the delivery of IT services to rural and poor populations. The model is one where limited intervention to support infrastructure and coordinate resources is combined with market-based delivery of IT services to the end...

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Exit of venture-backed firms often takes place through sales to large incumbent firms. We show that in such an environment, venture-backed firms have a stronger incentive to develop basic innovations into commercialized innovations than incumbent firms, due to strategic product market effects....

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. …

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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

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