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Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 2021

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is contrasted with the post-World War II period. This latter...

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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim - 2017

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...

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What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business

Furdas, Marina Dimitrova - 2010

one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …

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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E. - 2012

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...

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Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2019

We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine their choice of subsequently founding a startup. Our data set is unusually rich and combines the...

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Digital Entrepreneurship Research : A Concise Introduction

Naudé, Wim - 2020

In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what one could now call digital economies. The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the development of the digital economy. In a digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue...

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Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks

Markussen, Simen - 2016

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …

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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements....

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A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-Off Creation : The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics

Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philipp; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2022

We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...

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To Be Born is Not Enough : The Key Role of Innovative Startups

Colombelli, Alessandra - 2016

This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the evidence showing that innovative startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that greater survival is achieved when startups engage...

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