Because entrepreneurial activity can stimulate job creation and long-term economic growth, promoting entrepreneurship …

Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net … development of the number of entrepreneurs in an equilibrium framework and (ii)the approach focusing on the entries and exits of … entrepreneurs. In this paper we unify these ap-proaches to arrive at a model explaining the equilibrium and actual number of …

order to unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) on Forbes Magazine …'s list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way we identify 996 billionaire entrepreneurs in over fifty … entrepreneurs, an economically important group. We demonstrate that the common practice of relying on self-employment and related …

comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …