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We investigate which countries have the highest potential to achieve entrepreneurial progress. This progress is defined using an entrepreneurial ladder with five successive steps: “never thought about starting a business”, “thinking about starting a business”, “taking steps to start a...
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Nowadays, migrants form a significant share of the urban population, and their business is critical for urban economic growth. This paper addresses the key factors determining the position of migrant entrepreneurs in the urban economy in the Netherlands. In order to develop a solid assessment of...
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The founder (team)ś human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is … team of founders). Given the stickiness of initial choices, human capital decisions at entry turn out to be a close to …
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Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge)...
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The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration …. Favouritism, employees' seniority, employees' preferences over tasks, and fairness considerations often play a role as well. Team …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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This paper addresses the issue of technogenesis and its geographical pattern. It aims to offer both a general analysis framework and a test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is mainly built on the product life-cycle and the incubation approach. On the basis of this...
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