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Comparative Survival Analysis of Firms: the case of the Portuguese North region

Sarmento, Elsa; Nunes, Alcina - Departamento de Economia, Gestão e Engenharia … - 2010

on the creation of a specific entrepreneurship database, based on Quadros de Pessoal, where the methodology of Eurostat …

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Differences between entrepreneurs and employees in their educational paths

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Tuor Sartore, Simone; Wettstein, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010

entrepreneurs. Thus, the permeability of a national educational system is one crucial determinant for entrepreneurship. …This paper examines whether individuals who become either entrepreneurs or employees follow systematically different … educational paths to a given educational level. Following Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory, we expect that entrepreneurs aim at …

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Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Camacho, Andriana; Rodriguez, Catherine - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia. Using a fixed effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental...

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Internationalization processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises—a matter of attitude?

Sommer, Lutz - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 8 (2010) 3, pp. 288-317

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The Economics of Entrepreneurship Policy: Introduction to the Special Issue

Hölzl, Werner - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 10 (2010) 3, pp. 187-197

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Taxation, Labor Market Policy and High-Impact Entrepreneurship

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 10 (2010) 3, pp. 275-296

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Transferring Good Practice beyond Organizational Borders: Lessons from Transferring an Entrepreneurship Programme

Klofsten, Magnus; Heydebreck, Peter; Jones-Evans, Dylan - In: Regional Studies 44 (2010) 6, pp. 791-799

transferring an entrepreneurship programme, Regional Studies. This paper examines the transfer of a 'good practice …' entrepreneurship initiative from Linkoping in Sweden to nine other regions. It shows that the success of transferring 'good practice …

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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-Country Investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan - In: Industry and Innovation 17 (2010) 3, pp. 241-262

interacts with entrepreneurship; the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This study …

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The Steps to Managerial Excellence

VERBONCU, Ion; PURCARU, Ion - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 11 (2010) 3, pp. 389-407

Without any doubt, relaunching Romanian economy depends very much on SME sector getting out of the crisis, sector which has the main contribution to GDP production, to state budget income and human resources employment. Starting from these premises, based on scientific research performed in the...

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Employment Growth from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N.; Scott, John - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2010

This paper investigates employment growth in small firms funded by the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Using data collected by the National Research Council for each of five federal agencies, our analysis shows that on average over two-fifths of all projects retained 0...

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