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A Physician With A Soul Of A Cook? Entrepreneurial Personality Across Occupations

Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

There is a debate in the literature backed by ambiguous empirical evidence whether personality is useful at predicting entrepreneurship behavior. However, little is known about the role of the context in the relationship between personality and entrepreneurship. This paper draws on the...

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Stepping Forward: Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...

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Occupational Choice and Self-Employment - Are They Related?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Often, a person will become an entrepreneur only after a period of dependent employment, suggesting that occupational choices precede entrepreneurial choices. We investigate the relationship between occupational choice and self-employment. The findings suggest that the occupational choice of...

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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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Occupational Choice and Social Contacts Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...

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Cluster Innovation Along the Industry Lifecycle

Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …

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Incumbent Innovation and Entry by Spinoff

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … spawned from incumbents are not necessarily a threat; they can complement incumbents' production by commercializing knowledge … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-64 years old. A more detailed analysis of the working-age distribution suggests that startups in knowledge-based (high …

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