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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...
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Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002-2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses …
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industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …
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This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
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Our paper demonstrates that while failure tolerance by investors may encourage potential entrepreneurs to innovate, financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure endogenously choose to fund less radical innovations. Failure tolerance as an equilibrium price that increases in...
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This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
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This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
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Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries … the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on … global venture activities, we show that as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance, entrepreneurship increased …
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documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …
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