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entrepreneurship education) are higher correlated with the student employer entrepreneurs than informal institutions (role models …, correlated with entrepreneurship as a choice. Specifically, entrepreneurship education is the most relevant variable in …
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supply-side spillovers. This finding has important implications for entrepreneurship policies at the regional and national …
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characteristics are associated with entrepreneurship (starting a self-employed business); and which sorts of entrepreneurs are more … also relate to the decision to start a business or to create jobs. We find substantial negative gaps in entrepreneurship …
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I develop a theoretical model to investigate whether clusters moderate the relationship between entrepreneurship and …
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It is typically assumed that people engage in entrepreneurship because there are profits to be made. In contrast to … this view, this paper argues that entrepreneurship is more adequately characterized as a non-profit-seeking activity …. Evidence from a broad range of authors and academic fields is discussed showing that entrepreneurship does quite generally not …
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To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
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When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
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This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …
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Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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