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COVID-19 and the Global Venture Capital Landscape
Bellavitis, Cristiano; Fisch, Christian; McNaughton, Rod - 2021
We assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on venture capital (VC) investments. Using a dataset of 39,527 funding rounds that occurred before and during the pandemic in 130 coun-tries, we document a significant decline in VC investments. In line with our theoretical consid-erations, we show...
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment: a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 165-190
<Para ID="Par1">Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...</para>
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Education and entrepreneurial success
Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 4, pp. 783-796
to succeed in business. Results are robust to non-random selection into entrepreneurship. Copyright Springer Science …
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Entry and exit dynamics of nascent business owners
Rocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 63-84
individuals entering entrepreneurship after being displaced due to previous employer closure are found to persist longer …
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory
Huggins, Robert; Thompson, Piers - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 103-128
Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the … that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics …. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that …
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Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - In: Small Business Economics 45 (2015) 1, pp. 191-213
entrepreneurship. However, much of the work on this topic is not explicit about the role of values in this transmission process …
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Running in the family: parental role models in entrepreneurship
Hoffmann, Anders; Junge, Martin; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 1, pp. 79-104
It is well established that children of self-employed parents are more likely to become self-employed themselves, but the reasons are still hotly debated. Using Danish register data, we investigate the importance and workings of parental role models for the probability of becoming self-employed....
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Infrastructure and entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David; Heger, Diana; Veith, Tobias - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 2, pp. 219-230
This paper is one of the first studies to examine the link between infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Because …
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Are entrepreneurship and cognitive skills related? Some international evidence
Hafer, R.; Jones, Garett - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 2, pp. 283-298
Acs and Szerb Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI) and a measure of national CS. After including conventional … measure of entrepreneurship. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 …
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The emergence of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ghio, Niccolò; Guerini, Massimiliano; Lehmann, Erik; … - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 1, pp. 1-18
spillovers and entrepreneurship theory: the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE). This study conducts a …
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