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New Zealand (NZ) has been proclaimed as a leader in entrepreneurship by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM … that explain why NZ is a leader in the Entrepreneurship rating. NZ entrepreneurs are largely opportunity seeking: they want …
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geographical areas - entry costs and external effects. We extend the Lucas model of entrepreneurship to allow for heterogeneous …
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Previous research demonstrates that entrepreneurial processes underpin the growth of business groups. A business group is a set of companies controlled by the same entrepreneur. Case studies of portfolio entrepreneurs suggest that one of the main reasons for business group formation is the need...
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. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. …
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-2005, and entrepreneurship, highlighting the urgent need for a revival in entrepreneurial capital in some industries. Initially …, we consider as a measure of entrepreneurship the birth rates for different industries; this proxy proved to be a …
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This study of Brazilian immigrants in the United States examines the extent to which the human capital and the family social capital theories explain the probability of owning a business. This study incorporates into the analytical models a variable that controls for the presence of a market...
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How many entrepreneurs start-up their business ventures conducting some or all of their trade in the informal economy? The aim of this paper is to answer this key question that has been seldom addressed using data from 600 face-to-face structured interviews conducted in Ukraine in late 2005 and...
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Regions and states utilize venture capital forums to raise the profiles of youthful, potentially high-growth firms located within their boundaries. They aim to help organizations raise capital, to widen professional networks and to stimulate regional development. As a contribution toward...
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The Indonesian government has been trying to encourage entrepreneurship development by supporting the development of … by small entrepreneurs are lack of working capital and marketing difficulties. Finally, the majority of existing studies … suggest that the effectiveness of government programs to support SME development programs is low. The paper concludes that in …
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