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What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …
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The current American economic decline is a result of fundamental flaws in the economic structure of the country. The flaws in financial markets and financial policy allowed negative economic trends to grow and fester under the Bush administration. The U. S. Congress contributed mightily to the...
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innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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We describe Germany's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century through radical innovation and … entrepreneurship, and contrast this with the post-World War II period. This latter period, although it contained the German economic … miracle, was nevertheless a period during which innovation slowed down - a somewhat surprising conclusion, but consistent with …
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This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy : early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
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Innovative entrepreneurship is seen as a central driver of economic growth. Lawmakers around the world have attempted … to use law to foster such entrepreneurship. Yet, frequently law is described as the enemy of entrepreneurs. This paper …, and enabling - that law can play to foster entrepreneurship. Part II develops a comprehensive framework for crafting laws …
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This paper builds on an analytical tool for studying entrepreneurship in a new classical general equilibrium framework … show that different subgame perfect equilibria arise depending on whether the venture idea (innovation) is production …
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Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not … reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
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national high-tech zones positively affect local innovation and entrepreneurship. Our paper sheds new light on the debate about …This paper explores how a prominent place-based policy in China, the national high-tech zones, affects local innovation … innovation output and entrepreneurial activities. A number of additional tests suggest that the effects appear causal. Access to …
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