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The digital industries cluster known as Silicon Roundabout has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s …
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Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239493
technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper … narrative around the use of IT and social media for entrepreneurship in the future. …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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This paper reviews the literature on the role of public equity markets in the innovation ecosystem. The review … paper discusses the potential shortcomings of public equity markets that may hinder innovation, and highlights various …
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In this paper, we discuss several aspects related to innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin America (LATAM). First … relevant issue for the region. Then, we review the main research topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship covered by …, we document how LATAM lags behing high-income economies using various innovation indicators and how heterogeneity is a …
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A large and still growing body of literature suggests that entrepreneurship is of exceptional importance in explaining … entrepreneurial activity in innovation and regional growth within a spatial semi-endogenous growth model in the spirit of Jones (1995 …
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Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
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