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Choreographies of entrepreneurship: How different formats of co-presence are combined to facilitate knowledge creation in seed accelerator programs
Kuebart, Andreas Sebastian Carl; Ibert, Oliver - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 78 (2020) 1, pp. 35-51
This paper explores different functions of co-presence for collaborative knowledge creation in the context of seed accelerator programs. Seed accelerators offer programs of three to six months to enhance the growth of early-stage start-ups through various means of training and organizational...
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Obsessed maniacs and clairvoyant oracles: Empirically validated patterns of entrepreneurial behavior
Carayannis, Elias G.; Stewart, McDonald R. - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2 (2013), pp. 1-24
Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnitude of uncertainty and risk. The successful technology entrepreneur (term of art for...
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Family businesses and the gender of entrepreneurship
Lingas, Kyriakos - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2 (2013), pp. 1-7
Background: Economy, business, and entrepreneurship are related to the world of men. Home, nurturing, and the family … belong to women's world, so the story goes. On the other hand, family entrepreneurship and its outcome, the family business … other economic and entrepreneurial activities, the field of family entrepreneurship has been only recently addressed by …
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The role of local government in the process of entrepreneurship development
Skica, Tomasz; Bem, Agnieszka; Żygadło, Karolina - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-24
This article presents the role of local governments in supporting entrepreneurship development. The content of the … article presents the factors which foster activities undertaken by local authorities to promote entrepreneurship and also … local policy on supporting entrepreneurship. The article sets out areas of possible improvements in policy when stimulating …
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Innovation types at SMEs and external influencing factors
Walicka, Monika - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 3, pp. 73-81
Stimulating innovation is one of the pressing policy challenges facing many countries in the world today. The paper analyses the external factors that Polish entrepreneurs find most detrimental to their innovative activity. A sample of 199 small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Poland were...
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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs
Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...
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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs?
Nordman, Christophe Jalil - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...
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What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?
Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...
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Does the increase in house prices influence the creation of business startups? The case of Sweden
Berggren, Björn; Fili, Andreas; Wilhelmsson, Mats Håkan - In: REGION 4 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
their development. Based on the existing body of knowledge on the financing of entrepreneurship, we know that insider …, they could be seen as a vital addition to the existing body of knowledge within the area of entrepreneurship and regional …
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