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Innovative start-up patenting : a new approach towards identification and determinants

Wolf, Tina - 2013

There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...

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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

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By choice and by necessity : entrepreneurship and self-employment in the developing world

Margolis, David N. - 2014

Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

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Entrepreneurial couples

Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014

We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...

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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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The gendering of entrepreneurship context

Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida G.; De Bruin, Anne - 2014

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

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The dynamics of entrepreneurial careers in high-tech ventures : experience, education, and exit

Cumming, Douglas J.; Walz, Uwe; Werth, Jochen - 2015

online database indicate that founders stick with entrepreneurship as a serial entrepreneur or as an angel investor only in …

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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents’ personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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