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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries … the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on … global venture activities, we show that as the Chinese venture industry rose in importance, entrepreneurship increased …

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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform

Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …

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Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy : Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns

Denes, Matthew R.; Lagaras, Spyridon; Tsoutsoura, Margarita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

on U.S. tax returns to study the role of the gig economy on entrepreneurship. We find that gig workers are more likely to …

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Modernizing Access to Credit for Younger Entrepreneurs : From FICO to Cash Flow

Hair, Christopher M.; Howell, Sabrina T.; Johnson, Mark J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Younger entrepreneurs are disadvantaged by traditional loan underwriting, which relies heavily on personal credit scores. With data from three fintech companies, we show that incorporating timely information about ability to repay from business checking account statements particularly improves...

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Why Aren't There More Minority Entrepreneurs?

Bennett, Victor M.; Robinson, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-group entrepreneurship reveals that stronger networks enhance the relationship between social engagement and business formation. Also, as … searching for capital are important for understanding-policies aimed at boosting rates of entrepreneurship in underrepresented …

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Are Some Angels Better than Others?

Karlsen, Johan; Kisseleva, Katja; Mjøs, Aksel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses Norwegian tax records to examine the performance of angel investors. While most angel investments perform poorly, mean returns are twice the invested capital, due largely to extreme skewness: around one-third of investments are a total loss, but the top one-percent return more...

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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups

Chukumba, Celestine - 2005

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...

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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A. - 2005

entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …

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Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers : 1984-2001

DiNardo, John - 2004

Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...

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Education for Innovation : Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs vs. Corporate Incremental Improvements

Baumol, William J. - 2004

This paper explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a …

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