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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly … further: The name is changed to The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Prize sum is roughly doubled to 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419519
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Where Schumpeter was Nearly Right - The Swedish Model and Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Henrekson, Magnus; Jakobsson, Ulf - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
entrepreneurship waned in importance, the general public grew increasingly hostile towards capitalism, and by the late 1970s explicit … increasingly predominant, did not foresee the revival of entrepreneurship that took place in the Western countries around 1980. …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419538
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Comment on Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers
Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511660
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment: a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 165-190
<Para ID="Par1">Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...</para>
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Education and entrepreneurial success
Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 4, pp. 783-796
to succeed in business. Results are robust to non-random selection into entrepreneurship. Copyright Springer Science …
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Entry and exit dynamics of nascent business owners
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 63-84
individuals entering entrepreneurship after being displaced due to previous employer closure are found to persist longer …
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory
Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128
Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241921
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Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 191-213
entrepreneurship. However, much of the work on this topic is not explicit about the role of values in this transmission process …
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