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Entrepreneurship and Local Growth: A Comparison of the US and Sweden
Borgman, Benny; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
Perhaps the most exceptional aspect of the current era of globalisation is that entrepreneurship has become the engine …
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New firm formation by industry over space and time : a multi-level analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003
We apply a multi-level approach to analyze simultaneously the effects of three groups of determinants on new firm formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis indicates that innovation activities and the...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions
Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346583
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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012
deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …, considerable differences remain. These constitute the basis for the concluding policy discussion. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation …
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Steven Klepper: Recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Carlsson, Bo - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 2, pp. 131-140
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Josh Lerner: recipient of the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Parker, Simon - In: Small Business Economics 35 (2010) 3, pp. 245-254
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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence
Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …
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Is industry location persistent over time? Evidence from coagglomeration patterns between new and incumbent firms in Germany
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - In: Review of Regional Research 34 (2014) 1, pp. 1-21
We test whether new firms locate close to incumbent firms of the same industry. Tendencies to coagglomerate may explain the general wisdom that industry location is highly persistent over time. We perform separate analysis for East and West Germany which enables us to study two integrated areas...
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School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling
Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 459-478
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students’...
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