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COVID-19 as external enabler of entrepreneurship practice and research

Davidsson, Per; Recker, Jan; Briel, Frederik von - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 3, pp. 214-223

For decades, entrepreneurship and strategy research has been dominated by agent-centric and inward-looking theoretical perspectives. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the limits of this stance, as its influence on business has been both enormous and palpable. For the most part, the...

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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo - 2020

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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Enhancing dynamism in SMEs and entrepreneurship in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Lee, Jae Wan - 2018

Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies. The large-scale support for SMEs should shift from...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in … immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …

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Academics or Entrepreneurs? Entrepreneurial Identity and Invention Disclosure Behavior of University Scientists

George, Gerard; Jain, Sanjay; Maltarich, Mark A. - 2014

We conceptualize the nascent process of becoming an entrepreneur as a role identity transformation and investigate the factors that influence an individual's decision to assume an entrepreneurial identity. We collected more than 70 hours of interview data in addition to a survey of 796...

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Knowledge Bridging by Biotechnology Start-Ups

Hsu, David H.; Lim, Kwanghui - 2014

We empirically investigate a type of technological boundary spanning-oriented search in which firms apply knowledge from one technical domain to innovate in another, a phenomenon we term knowledge bridging. In an analysis of a novel dataset of all the biotechnology firms founded to commercialize...

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University-Incubator Firm Knowledge Flows : Assessing Their Impact on Incubator Firm Performance

Rothaermel, Frank T.; Thursby, Marie C. - 2015

Technology incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of...

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The deep historical roots of industrial culture and regional entrepreneurship : a case study of two regions

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2022

special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation …

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Digital explosion and entrepreneurship education : impact on promoting entrepreneurial intention for business students

Dabbous, Amal; Mallah Boustani, Nada - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 16 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

This study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education and artificial intelligence (AI) development on entrepreneurial intentions while investigating the mediating role of perceived behavioral control. The proposed model also accounts for individual and contextual socioeconomic...

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Digital business incubators and digital entrepreneurship : the case of Digital Incubation Center in Qatar

Sonia, Chetouane; Hania, Chetouane - In: Croatian review of economic, business and social … 9 (2023) 1, pp. 33-50

. International benchmark reports are used to assess Qatar's global ranking in research, development, innovation, and digital … for entrepreneurship. They underscore Qatar's dedication to driving innovation through investments in telecommunications … growth and success of digital startups, fostering innovation, and positioning Qatar as a hub for digital entrepreneurship and …

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