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We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …
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measures to proxy for entrepreneurship often gives rise to misleading inferences. Interestingly the rate of billionaire …, more venture capital investment and lower regulatory burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms. …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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Conventional wisdom suggests labor market declines drive workers towards temporary entrepreneurship and self … a period of high unemployment does increase entry to entrepreneurship. However, based on multiple measures of success …
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We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how determinants of entry vary in high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. The wealth and educational background characteristics potential entrepreneurs possess, we found, predispose them to make distinctly...
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entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship … entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual …
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conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that self-reliance, self-determination and proactive behavior are desirable from … entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first …
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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This paper focuses on the role of student entrepreneurship clubs and societies. It explores their impact on student … studies conducted from 2006-2007, which explored three different forms of clubs; entrepreneurship clubs; SIFE (Students In … to reflective practice and that social learning is important. The paper highlights the capacity of entrepreneurship …
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