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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

drive innovation. …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

issues will be cross classified with J23; those focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship will be cross classified with O31 … the questions this review covers the intersection of entrepreneurship with labor markets, innovation and capital markets …

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Exploration and Exploitation - The Role of Entrepreneurship and R+D in the Process of Innovation

Keilbach, Max; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R+D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …

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Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

innovation as well as the project's feasibility. Our analysis of 900 nascent entrepreneurs finds that patents and prototypes … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …

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High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S.

Hart, David M.; Acs, Zoltan J.; Tracy, Spencer - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally representative sample of rapidly growing "high-impact" companies. This class of companies drives job creation and aggregate growth in the U.S. We find that, while most previous studies have...

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Intellectual Property Rights and the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan J.; Sanders, Mark - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltan J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two...

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