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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim A. - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim A.; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the state of the art in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of entrepreneurship will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic and...

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The role of training in fostering cluster-based micro and small enterprises development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - 2012

While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countries. In order to explore whether we can...

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Shacklean Uncertainty and Cultural Embeddedness as Innovation Constraints in the UK

Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017

We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur’s innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …

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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017

We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) – the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge – as a distinct channel through which firm-specific human capital drives endogenous growth. Our...

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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim; Nagler, Paula - 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 … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …

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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gætano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth

Henrekson, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

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