Understanding the relation between innovation and performance in both large, medium, and small firms is of crucial importance for ongoing economic growth, but still hardly understood. The topic of understanding innovations and their relationship with firm performance has become more relevant...

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 'Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship' covering the 25...

This study investigate what makes individuals (entrepreneurs, employees in organisations) decide to proceed with innovative ideas. This is an important topic as practitioners in organisations (managers, entrepreneurs) and policy makers face the challenge of realising continuous innovation. Three...

This study explores firm growth and its relation with firm-specific capabilities. Organisations can benefit from growth in many ways, including greater efficiencies through economies of scale, increased power, the ability to withstand environmental change, increased profits and increased...

This report outlines the MISTRAL model (Administrative Compliance Cost Assessment Tool), by emphasising the issues of when a model may be applied, why it will be applied, how the model works and why the model should be used. The report concludes by narrating several results obtained on the basis...

In deze studie is gekeken naar de samenhang in gedragsverandering bij werkgevers in het MKB en de aanpassing van de wetgeving m.b.t. de arbeidsongeschiktheid van werknemers. Uit het onderzoek komt naar voren dat er, door de financiële prikkels die zijn voortgekomen uit de nieuwe wetgeving, drie...

This study explains female entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables are derived from three streams of literature, including that on the determinants of entrepreneurship, female labour-force participation, and female entrepreneurship. To test the theoretical...

Beschrijving van de kennismaatschappij als oorzaak van de overgang van een management-economie naar een ondernemerschapseconomie. Ondernemerschap is een gedegen wapen tegen werkloosheid. Hoge werkloosheid stimuleert mensen tot ondernemerschap.

This report presents the results of an EIM study about spin-off businesses. These are new, independent enterprises set up by departing employees with assistance of former employers. The study entails preliminary exploration of that phenomenon, including analyses of the characteristics of...

The idea behind the new Dutch Bankruptcy Act is that it should reward risk-taking by entrepreneurs in order to stimulate innovative entrepreneurship. Therefore, the rights of the creditors may need to be adjusted in security at some level. Knowledge on the impact of creditor rights on...