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Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … ; High-growth firms ; High-impact entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Product market regulations ; Property rights …

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Billionaires

Sanandaji, Tino; Leeson, Peter T. - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is enormous: billionaires. We explore the relationship...

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate...

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The entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ and the organic square of entrepreneurship : definition and application to the French case

Uzunidis, Dimitri; Boutillier, Sophie; Laperche, Blandine - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-17

The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of the entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ (the set of knowledge, relations and financial resources gathered together by the entrepreneur) and the role of the socio-economic...

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How Public Financial Instruments Impact on the Economy of a Territory

d'Alessandro, Laura - 2012

The competitiveness of enterprises depends both on environmental characteristic favouring innovation and on the … with high technology/innovation content show a risk-return profile which is too high for private investors, which results … high technology/innovation firms by direct intervention or by incentivizing private investments (indirect intervention …

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Billionaires

Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

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R&D Subsidies and the Performance of High-Tech Start-Ups

Colombo, Massimo G. - 2014

We address the key question of the efficacy of R&D policy measures in support of hightech start-ups. Distinguishing between subsidies awarded on a competitive basis and those assigned through an automatic procedure, we show that the former type led to a positive total factor productivity...

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Local Institutional Heterogeneity and Firm Dynamism : Decomposing the Metropolitan Economic Freedom Index

Bennett, Daniel L. - 2020

A nascent body of research suggests that economic freedom is positively associated with entrepreneurial activity. Most of this literature is based on cross-countries analyses, although there is significant regional heterogeneity in entrepreneurial activity and the institutional and policy...

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Affinities between Different Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Economic Zones

Pasha, Azam - 2019

Entrepreneurial ecosystems can take different forms, some of the conspicuous ones are country, city, cluster and economic zone. All these four entrepreneurial ecosystems are based on certain variables which affect their characteristics, performance, and impact. The models for evaluating...

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Local Economic Freedom & Creative Destruction in America

Bennett, Daniel L. - 2019

Economic freedom facilitates the market selection mechanism that enables the Schumpeterian creative destruction process. I develop a framework depicting how economic freedom, which reduces entry barriers and transactions costs, acts as an external enabler that facilitates the creation of firms...

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