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culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …
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At least since Schumpeter published his work "The Theory of Economic Development" (1912), a wide body of literature has focused on the evolutionary process behind firm growth and survival. Recently a growing interest is devoted to the variable "location" as a critical factor, shaping firm...
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There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
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We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...
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We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of … indicates the prevalence of a regional culture of entrepreneurship. Moreover, local presence and geographic proximity to a …
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discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. -- Entrepreneurship ; new business … ; formation ; innovative industries ; regional development ; entrepreneurship policy …
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This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular, we analyze the role of regional absorptive capacity and new business formation for these effects. We find that West German regions benefit from both types of varieties. The...
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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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entrepreneurship and the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This is consistent with the need … to build social relationships in today’s networked economy. -- human capital ; social capital ; entrepreneurship …
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employment or entrepreneurship. Strong willingness to freely distribute research findings are related to a low appeal of private … sector work. -- Knowledge transfer ; science ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; commercialization …
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