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enterprises. The empirical results show that Internet-based technologies were an important enabler of innovation in the year 2003 …This article analyzes the relationship between the usage of Internet-based technologies, different types of innovation …. It was found that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process …
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The study provides theoretical insights and empirical evidence on the emergence of different types and degrees of entrepreneurial innovativeness. The results suggest that entrepreneurial innovativeness depends both on individual factors and on the environment in which the individual lives. In...
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We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their …
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This paper studies the diffusion of multiple related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism for technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional related technologies....
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Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd out nascent entrepreneurial activity. Our results hold regardless of entrepreneurial motivation (necessity or opportunity) and entrepreneurial type (imitative or innovative).
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We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
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the installed-base-effect seemed to play no role. We perform our estimation with a discrete time hazard rate model that …
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