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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity : 1996-2007
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
The rate of entrepreneurial activity among women dropped sharply in 2007 while the activity rate among men and immigrants surged, according to a national assessment of entrepreneurial activity by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity,...
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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2006
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
The Kauffman Index measures the monthly rate of business creation at the individual owner level, reporting the percent of non-business owners who start businesses with more than fifteen hours worked per week. The matched basic monthly files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) provide a...
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Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity : 1996-2008
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2009
immigrant and native-born rates. Although the increase in entrepreneurship rates among immigrants was driven entirely by low …
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Entrepreneurial Innovation
Rigotti, L.; Ryan, M.; Vaithianathan, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001
This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude toward uncertainty.Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous.An entrepreneur, who owns residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and...
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Exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities: the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for knowledge flows and economic growth. The empirical results indicate that an increase in … innovative start-up activity is more effective than an increase in general entrepreneurship for economic growth. …
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Exploring the knowledge filter: how entrepreneurship and university-industry relations drive economic growth
Mueller, Pamela - 2005
hypotheses that entrepreneurship and university-industry relations are vehicles for knowledge flows and, thus, spur economic …
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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies
Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004
New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2005
Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …
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Creating Strategic Advantage through EntrepreneurialGovernance in New Ventures
Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik; Plummer, Lawrence A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
An important literature has made a fundamental link between corporate governanceand corporate strategy. According to agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper suggests that this may not apply in the context of...
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O’Gorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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