improvements are made by independent, profit-seeking entrepreneurs, can exhibit regular booms, slowdowns and downturns as an …

growth. Our findings underline the importance of finance for entrepreneurship and microenterprise growth, and the role of …

In innovation research, there is a wide-spread notion that women in general and women entrepreneurs in particular are …

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. …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth. First, we illustrate that entrepreneurship affects the … entrepreneurship exerts significant growth stimuli. We then evaluate this prediction empirically applying 3SLS estimations based on the … approach proposed by Barro (1991, 2000, 2003). Using data of 188 countries between 1980-2010, we show that entrepreneurship has …

have their decision partially driven by their risk propensity. Implications of our findings for entrepreneurs and … institutions dealing with entrepreneurs are discussed. …

entrepreneurship (personal attraction, social norms, and perceived self-efficacy), and innovative cognitive style (willingness to try …