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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

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Understanding the Drivers of an ‘Entrepreneurial’ Economy : Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands

Okamuro, Hiroyuki; Van Stel, André; Verheul, Ingrid - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2010

considerably less favourable to entrepreneurship, compared to Japan. On the other hand, cultural differences between the … Netherlands and Japan explain a substantial part of the difference in entrepreneurship rates between the two countries. …

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The Life-cycle of the Internet Companies Quoted on the Milan Stock Exchange

Cafferata, Roberto; Cerruti, Corrado; Gatti, Corrado - In: DSI Essays Series 16 (2010)

This paper describes the evolution of the Italian Internet companies quoted on the Milan Stock Exchange. Despite a relevant international literature on the Internet bubble, the transition of Internet companies through different business strategies remains somewhat under explored in the Italian...

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Does Cultural Diversity Increase The Rate Of Entrepreneurship?

Sobel, Russell S.; Dutta, Nabamita; Roy, Sanjukta - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2010

cultural diversity increase the rate of entrepreneurship in the presence of good institutions using evidence from the United …

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Anatomy of cluster development in China: The case of health biotech clusters

Conlé, Marcus; Taube, Markus - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2010

Focussing on China's health biotech clusters the study explores the anatomy of interaction in as well as between various clusters. While the literature has identified the existence of a dense network of durable interactions among firms and between firms and academia at a particular location as...

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Dutch Construction Industry

Woolthuis, Rosalinde J.A. Klein - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 2, pp. 505-523

This article discusses the strategies that sustainable entrepreneurs use to interact with their environment in the Dutch construction industry. The Dutch construction industry is under great pressure to move towards sustainability, and entrepreneurs are believed to be able to play a large role...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...

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A Composite Index of the Creative Economy

Bowen, H. P.; Moesen, W.; Sleuwaegen, L. - In: Review of Business and Economics LIII (2008) 4, pp. 375-397

, Entrepreneurship and Openness. To develop the CICE we use an innovative method to determine the weights used to “add-up” the …

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