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Geography of Business Incubator Formation in the United States

Yu, Junbo; Middleton, Mark; Jackson, Randall - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2010

The geography of business incubators has seldom been examined against the public aspirations and beliefs that incubators should either inhabit economically distressed areas to alleviate unemployment and poverty (in the case of empowerment business incubators) or proliferate in technologically...

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A County-Level Assessment of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Appalachia Using Simultaneous Equations

Mojica, Maribel; Gebremedhin, Tesfa; Schaeffer, Peter - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2009

This study provides evidence of the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development in Appalachia. Using data … entrepreneurship on economic growth and development. We present an expanded Carlino-Mills growth model using changes in population … entrepreneurship’s contributions to economic growth, and its potential as a development strategy for a region, such as Appalachia, that …

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Housing price and entrepreneurship in China

Li, Lixing; Wu, Xiaoyu - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 2, pp. 436-449

credit constraint and thus encourage entrepreneurship. However, a house serves as both an important investment channel and a … entrepreneurship. This study highlights the negative consequences of surging housing price on entrepreneurship in developing countries. …

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The effect of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation, customer orientation and firm performance in an international context: an empirical analysis from Aust...

Filser, Matthias; Eggers, Fabian; Kraus, Sascha; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 19 (2014) 1, pp. 7-30

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...

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Entrepreneurship has emerged as the economic engine and social development throughout the world

Kefela, Ghirmai T. - In: Journal of Asian Business Strategy 1 (2011) 4, pp. 45-53

entrepreneurship and economicgrowth. The first step in establishing the linkages requires the formulation ofknowledge about the …. Entrepreneurship policesare equally important, as an engine of innovation, in developed countries asthey are in developing or … reference than the model of the managed economy when explainingthe role of entrepreneurship in the contemporary, developed …

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The Role of Institutions of Private Property Rights and Money in Entreprenurial Discovery

Stalebrink, Odd; Sacco, John; Bushee, Gerald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007

This paper examines the influence of private property rights and monies on entrepreneurial discovery. A framework is presented and tested, which views these two institutions as key determinants of entrepreneurial discovery. Using several measures as proxies for their influence, two variables,...

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What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Miao, Jianjun - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2010

The economics workings of the corporate income tax remain controversial. Harberger?s seminal 1962 article viewed the tax as raising the cost of capital used to produce ?corporate goods.?But ?corporate goods?can be and generally are made by non-corporate ?rms, sug- gesting that the corporate tax...

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Small and Medium Sized Enterprises as the Driving Force of Romania Economic Growth

Dumitrescu, Alina Ligia - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 2, pp. 49-53

the Small Business Act and to the importance of entrepreneurship development as a source of new jobs. In conclusion, the … SMEs sector in Romania is to increase innovation and youth entrepreneurship. Last, but not the least the top priority for …

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New Firm Creation and Failure: A Matching Approach

Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naude, Wim - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2011

possible applications of this matching approach to assist in formalizing the economics of entrepreneurship. …

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The "Individualist Entrepreneur" vs. Socially Sustainable Development: Can Microfinance Build Community?

Warnecke, Tonia - In: Journal of Economic Issues 48 (2014) 2, pp. 377-386

contributed to the focus of policymakers on entrepreneurship. However, many programs designed to support entrepreneurship are … of entrepreneurship in most societies, but also the narrow focus and structure of entrepreneurship programs. Microfinance …

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