Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of … entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the … entrepreneurship. In order to unambiguously identify high-impact entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) who appear …

In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … evasive entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive/destructive, its dynamic character is more important because … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …

classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel … development of nations. What’s more, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions—entrepreneurs often shape … institutions themselves. Entrepreneurship abiding by existing institutions is occasionally disruptive enough to challenge the …

supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … entrepreneurship. As business entrepreneurship, innovative political activity may be productive or unproductive, depending on the …