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Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...
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is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …
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the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored … chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the …
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This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national … extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest …
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varieties which corres-pond to the early stage of the product life cycle. Moreover, because entrepreneurs serve as agents that … profit benefit entrepre-neurs and skilled labor. By contrast, factors of production employed in the mature stages of the life …
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This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the De-velopment of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the...
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the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored … chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the …
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This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their … those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business ownership immediately upon exiting their first business (direct serial … entrepreneurs are different. …
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We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...
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Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as...
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