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entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their … time in entrepreneurship. Low-ability entrepreneurs are more likely to abandon a project after only a year. …Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To …
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the recent trends in the labor market, the survey deepened the following issues: the entrepreneurship of the Italian …
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The connection between the weak performance of the Italian economy and the mechanisms governing the creation and allocation of human capital has been investigated only rarely. This paper argues that the Italian economy faces not just a generic shortage of human capital but a specific shortage of...
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entrepreneurship, that will also be discussed bridging entrepreneurial studies with the development literature. Finally, the possible …
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The role of entrepreneurship in economic growth and development has been largely debated and acknowledged, both in … literature and in policy making. Wihin the context of the present crisis, at a European level, entrepreneurship development is … and initiatives to make entrepreneurship the growth engine of European economy and to put the principle of “think small …
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This study provides evidence of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development in Appalachia. Using data … entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. We present an expanded Carlino-Mills growth model using changes in population … entrepreneurship’s contributions to economic growth, and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, that …
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Despite their worldwide adoption by policy makers as the Holy Grail for entrepreneurship and business development, the …
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The geography of business incubators has seldom been examined against the public aspirations and beliefs that incubators should either inhabit economically distressed areas to alleviate unemployment and poverty (in the case of empowerment business incubators) or proliferate in technologically...
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Entrepreneurship variables constructed from county-level proprietorship and firm birth data were included in an … endogenous growth model to determine the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in West Virginia. The …. However, none of the entrepreneurship variables used in the study is statistically significant in determining per capita …
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This paper examines the influence of private property rights and monies on entrepreneurial discovery. A framework is presented and tested, which views these two institutions as key determinants of entrepreneurial discovery. Using several measures as proxies for their influence, two variables,...
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