Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship we analyze the … labor force) job creation by entrepreneurs two and six years after start-up. We show that the average entrepreneur does not …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as … bias or not. We show that entrepreneurs have more favorable beliefs about nationwide conditions and then that these … entrepreneurs' beliefs are relatively good predictors of the future.We conclude from these two findings that entrepreneurs are less …

entrepreneurial experimentation comprises both ‘technical' and ‘market' experimentation, and that entrepreneurship must be …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (selfemployed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …

Trust and entrepreneurship are seen as key ingredients of long-term prosperity. However, it is not clear how these two … are related. Part of the confusion can be traced back to the measurement of entrepreneurship, biased towards independent … entrepreneurship (self-employed and new firms), and excluding entrepreneurship within established organizations. We shed new light on …

inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will …, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the business stealing effect …

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when … entrepreneurs market their product themselves. When innovations reduce only the fixed costs of production this leads to a …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation … kinds of entrepreneurs. We find that the institutions consistent with self-employed entrepreneurs differ markedly from the …