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Realizing expectations?
Kleinhempel, Johannes; Estrin, Saul - 2024
Comparative international entrepreneurship research has often used measures of high-growth expectations … entrepreneurship to proxy for the construct of high-impact entrepreneurship. We revisit this practice by assessing the cross …-country association between high-growth expectations and realized high-impact entrepreneurship to speak to construct measurement fit. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213423
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Innovation within Mearth: Beyond-Earth innovations and their impact on Earth's progress
Schilirò, Daniele - 2024
This contribution delves into the analysis of beyond-Earth innovations and their profound impact on human life and Earth's progress. The paper first examines the literature on innovation, highlighting that innovation, which represents the primary source of progress, is complex, uncertain, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214034
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What is the Effect of the Current Financial Crisis on Venture Capital Financing? Empirical Evidence from US Internet Start-ups
Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp - 2009
Employing a large dataset regarding venture capital investments in US Internet firms, we analyze the effect of the current financial crisis on the venture capital market. Using regression analysis, we find that the financial crisis led to a 20% decrease in the average amount of funds raised per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015216552
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Productive and cognitive innovation strategy:African framework design
Nwaobi, Godwin C - 2011
Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth, particularly in the competitive market economies. However, the most conducive market environment for innovative activity has also become a subject of interest. Thus, a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015226226
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Crowdfunding: disintermediated investment banking
Rubinton, Brian J - 2011
This paper introduces crowdfunding as a concept and model for the evolution of investment banking. Crowdfunding, an application of crowdsourcing, is defined as one party’s attempt to finance a project by offering three types of investment opportunities to potential investors. The investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227417
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The Multipliers and Key Sectors of Entrepreneurship Spillover: An input-output approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - 2008
The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and … industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an … are: (a) to develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship spillover; (b) to identify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015241452
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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015241510
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The Culture of Entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Shankha; Thompson, Jon; Yehoue, Etienne - 2014
We study the cultural process through which a society inculcates an entrepreneurial spirit. People work for a guaranteed wage or operate a firm whose return depends on business expertise. The latter is culturally acquired, within the family or outside, and people may choose an occupation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015243074
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Entrepreneurial Regions: do macro-psychological Cultural Characteristics of Regions help solve the “Knowledge Paradox” of Economics?
Obschonka, Martin; Stuetzer, Michael; Gosling, Samuel D.; … - 2015
entrepreneurship rates). To date, this “knowledge paradox” has resisted resolution. We take an interdisciplinary perspective to offer a … statistical relation between knowledge resources and entrepreneurial vitality (i.e., high entrepreneurship rates) in a region will … measures of entrepreneurship-prone culture from two large personality datasets from the United States (N = 935,858) and Great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015248145
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Entrepreneurial Regions: do macro-psychological Cultural Characteristics of Regions help solve the “Knowledge Paradox” of Economics?
Obschonka, Martin; Stuetzer, Michael; Gosling, Samuel D.; … - 2015
entrepreneurship rates). To date, this “knowledge paradox” has resisted resolution. We take an interdisciplinary perspective to offer a … statistical relation between knowledge resources and entrepreneurial vitality (i.e., high entrepreneurship rates) in a region will … measures of entrepreneurship-prone culture from two large personality datasets from the United States (N = 935,858) and Great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015248216