opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … entrepreneurs. Our results show that there is a strong relationship between knowledge spillovers and new venture creation. …Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The …

knowledge: rational, emotional and spiritual. This goal is transposed into practice throughout exploratory quantitative research …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own … entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied skills of individuals. This data set allows us to construct an indicator that … of entrepreneurs remains the largest. The impact of human capital formation on skill balance also varies among employees …

; Entrepreneurship ; Educational entry requirement Natural experiment ; Craftsmanship …

; Entrepreneurship ; Educational entry requirement ; Natural experiment ; Craftsmanship …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …