The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from … established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural … exist trading diasporas which have a generally enhanced innovative capacity vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I … find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs … robust to controlling for selection into entrepreneurship and selection into college. …

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed something of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has examined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …

entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …

personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and the regional share of nascent entrepreneurs. …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …