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This paper is one of the first studies to examine the link between infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Because …
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We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...
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We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata …
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entrepreneurship among several ethnic/racial groups in the United States.  I find rapid growth rates for the number of self …
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …
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This paper analyzes the technology transfer policies that are being developed to reduce the regional disparities in economic growth in China. In particular, these technology transfer policies focus on increasing the innovative activity in central China, in order to spur economic development and...
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Knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and the prevailing theory of economic growth treat opportunities as … into entrepreneurship or enable entrepreneurs to recognize creativity and commercialize it. This creativity theory of … entrepreneurship depends not only on ordinary human capital, but more importantly also on creativity embodied in creative individuals …
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