Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …

examined each group's motives. Reporting the results of face-to-face structured interviews with 200 informal entrepreneurs in … Cameroon (West Africa), the finding is that the majority, especially st. walker and st. corner informal entrepreneurs, are … predominantly necessity-driven while st. owner entrepreneurs are predominantly opportunity-driven. Our study also revealed a …

When seeking to harness entrepreneurship and enterprise culture, governments often seek to transfer policy measures …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees' rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. …