rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze … find strong evidence that access to external credit increases the growth of both employment and sales. Taxes appear to … constrain growth. The data suggest that entrepreneurial skills have little independent effect on growth, once demand conditions …

alternative, embedded politics approach to explain the sharp contrasts in policy and SME manufacturing growth in the Czech … significant growth in new firms, Czech policies of rapid, mass privatization produced stagnation. I argue that institutional …

investigate this relationship empirically. Our measures of ‘optimism’ and ‘realism’ are derived from comparing the turnover growth …

This article describes the academic contributions of the 2010 recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship … venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … drivers of growth in modern economies. The first part of this article explains Lerner’s contributions as regards the structure …