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entrepreneurship in the informal economy, except to advocate that multinationals, local firms, state and public agencies should work …
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entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …
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New businesses are important for job creation and have contributed more than proportionally to the expansion in the 1990s and the decline of employment after the 2007 recession. This paper provides a framework for analyzing determinants of business creation in a world where new business owners...
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and informal. The questionnaire that was created for the purpose of this analysis and research consists of 24 questions …
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This paper investigates the distinctive technology protection strategies of entrepreneurial technology firms. In contrast with much popular opinion, it is reported that intellectual property features more prominently in the business of small entrepreneurial firms than it does in the business of...
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objective behind this research is to critically assess the assistance services and to prioritize the service dimensions provided …
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limited empirical evidence of the interrelation between these two constructs in current academic literature. This research … innovativeness. Limitations and further research are cited to enhance the understanding of the interrelation of the constructs. …
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This paper empirically examines business starts, deaths, venture capital and patents in relation to U.S. public policy. The most consistent evidence in the data shows that lower levels of labor frictions and higher levels of SBIR awards are associated with more business starts and higher levels...
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This paper sketches the contours of a theory of entrepreneurship focusing on the nature of entrepreneurship as … intermediation under information asymmetries. While entrepreneurship, strategy, and finance researchers have studied the relationship … potential buyers and sellers under information asymmetries. Specifically, we focus on two key questions in entrepreneurship …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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