The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …

. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree (Abitur) but no further professional …

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <A HREF="http://people.few.eur.nl/vanderzwan/articles/Regional%20 …Studies%20Ladder%20Europe%20US.pdf">'Regional Studies'</A>, 2013, Volume 47, issue 5, pages 803-825.<P> We investigate which … are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European countries and the United …

consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …

-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector … on regional employment growth in the same sector and on other sectors. We find differences between different types of … start-ups. Knowledge-intensive start-ups seem to have larger effects on the regional economy. In particular, start-ups in …