In the present study, we examine the associations between both present and future temporal focus, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) using data from 783 solo self-employed individuals. We distinguish between the sub-dimensions of EO: risk-taking, pro-activeness, and innovativeness. Taken...

This report is part of the research program “SMEs and Entrepreneurship” which is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

To-the-point industry information is generally hard to get,  especially when it concerns new and emerging industries which are not covered by existing statistics - while simultaneously these industries are important for employment growth and general welfare. To fill this void, Panteia joined...

While after the 2008 financial crisis most European enterprises were faced with a reduction in the demand for their products, some were not. This study examines to which extent this depends on the overall innovation performance of their domestic country. The innovativeness of a country is...

In the current economic crisis, some enterprises are faced with a reduction in the demand for their products whilst others are not. The research question of this study is: to which extent does this depend on the innovativeness of the country of origin? Go to the publication 'The impact of the...

We investigate the role of an entrepreneur’s start-up motivation in determining the mode of entrepreneurial exit. A distinction is made between involuntary exit through business failure and voluntary exit through business sell-out or transfer. Regarding an entrepreneur’s start-up motivation,...

Fast-growing firms are considered as the central drivers of job creation in the economy. There is an abundance of literature on the separate subjects of firm growth and firm survival. However, the relationship between survival and growth is neglected. Using the Dutch Longitudinal Enterprise...

Labour productivity differs significantly between small, medium-sized and large enterprises in the private enterprise sector. This holds both for the level of labour productivity as well as its development. Size-class differences regarding the level of labour productivity are only to a limited...

Given the big employment losses in the current economic and financial crisis, not only the creation of new jobs is important for economic and social welfare, but also the conservation of existing jobs. In this respect, it is crucial that firms which employ personnel, survive. In this paper we...

Finding relevant industry documentation is a challenge. A well-known caveat of any industrial information system is that it outdates quickly. For example, only in 2008 formal industry classifications discovered internet retail, and in recent years, this category (code 47.91 in the NACE 2008...