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Is Venture Capital a regional business? - The role of syndication

Fritsch, Michael; Schilder, Dirk - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

We investigate whether the supply of Venture Capital (VC) in Germany is driven by spatial influences. The study is based on information from more than 300 VC investments made in Germany between 2004 and 2005. We find evidence that the geographical distance between a VC company and the portfolio...

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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …

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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

A multinomial logit model and survey data from the 25 EU member states and the US are used to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on various entrepreneurial engagement levels. These engagement levels range from "never thought about starting a business" to "thinking about it",...

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be

Irigoyen, Jesús Maria; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the …

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START-UP FINANCING:A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for Comparative Economics <London> - 2010

We investigate the determinants of start-up financing in 41 countries, using theGlobal Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys …

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