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An Evolutionary Approach to the Theory of Entrepreneurship

Grebel, Thomas; Pyka, Andreas; Hanusch, Horst - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2001

The building blocks of our model are bounded-rational actors with specific sets of endowments: 'entrepreneurial spirit', human capital and venture capital. The entrepreneurial behavior to found a firm is triggered by the individuals' endowments, their social network and the evaluation of the...

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High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results

Moreno, Fabiana; Coad, Alex - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2015

increasing interest from entrepreneurship scholars. By analysing recent findings in the literature of high growth firms, this …

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What explains the survival gap of pushed and pulled corporate spin-offs?

Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste - In: Economics Letters 126 (2015) C, pp. 127-130

Unconditionally, pushed spin-offs are found to survive longer than their pulled counterparts. Using matched employer–employee data and novel multivariate decomposition techniques, we show that pushed spin-offs’ relative survival advantage is mostly explained by their larger human capital...

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Electricity consumption, industrial production, and entrepreneurship in Singapore

Sun, Sizhong; Anwar, Sajid - In: Energy Policy 77 (2015) C, pp. 70-78

Within the context of a tri-variate vector autoregressive framework that includes entrepreneurship, this paper examines …-run relationship exists among electricity consumption, output and entrepreneurship in Singapore's manufacturing sector. Empirical … industrial production and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, entrepreneurship Granger causes electricity consumption, which causes …

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The 80/20 rule: Corporate support for innovation by employees

Krasteva, Silvana; Sharma, Priyanka; Wagman, Liad - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 38 (2015) C, pp. 32-43

We model an employee's decision to pursue an innovative idea at his employing firm (internally) or as a start-up (externally). We characterize an idea by its market profitability and the degree of positive/negative externality that it imposes on the employing firm's profits. The innovation...

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Entrepreneurial development for U.S. minority homeless and unstably housed youth: A qualitative inquiry on value, barriers, and impact on health

Jennings, Larissa; Shore, Deborah; Strohminger, Nancy; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 49 (2015) C, pp. 39-47

Homeless and unstably housed youth in the U.S. have high rates of unemployment and often rely on survival strategies that negatively impact their economic, emotional, and physical health. While integrated health and entrepreneurial development initiatives targeting the poor have been...

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Self-Assessment System: Detrimental Effects upon Entrepreneurial and Innovative Activity

KOTNIK, Patricia; KOVAC, Mitja - In: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences Quarterly V (2014) 1(9), pp. 23-37

enables entrepreneurship. But so too is co-operation between firms which requires an exchange of information and may lead to …

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Self-Assessment System: Detrimental Effects upon Entrepreneurial and Innovative Activity

KOTNIK, Patricia; KOVAC, Mitja - In: Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics V (2014) 1(9), pp. 23-37

enables entrepreneurship. But so too is co-operation between firms which requires an exchange of information and may lead to …

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Access to finance for innovative SMEs since the financial crisis

Lee, Neil; Sameen, Hiba; Cowling, Marc - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 2, pp. 370-380

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been increased focus on access to finance for small firms. Research from before the crisis suggested that it was harder for innovative firms to access finance. Yet no research has considered the differential effect of the crisis on innovative...

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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Batista, Catia; McIndoe-Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2014

Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic … the impact of return migration on entrepreneurship is affected by double unobservable migrant self-selection, both at the …

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