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research in entrepreneurship, strategy and economic growth. … mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledge investments by existing organizations, when … in performance and subsequent growth in industries, regions and economies. The framework has implications for future …
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …
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backbone services play a key role for economic growth. We perform an Input-Output analysis to determine the linkages between … the rest of the economy which indicate strong growth- inducing downstream effects. Moreover, the interconnectedness … efficient provision of backbone services is essential to induce manufacturing production and enable economic growth in South …
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obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … to trade commercial- and specialized business services on long-run growth by applying a dynamic panel data approach to … account for unobserved country specific effects and endogenous growth determinants. The system GMM estimates validate that a …
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capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and …
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on economic growth. The focus is on neoclassical growth modells (Solow-Swan based). In particular the role of money in … fosters economic growth can not be solved due to reduced monetary modelling within the Tobin model. …
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Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
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We investigate the effect of broad personality traits-the Big Five-on an individual's decision to become self- employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...
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Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
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There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
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