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Unternehmensgründungen nehmen zu, wenn die Konjunktur abflaut
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 12, pp. 3-8
Do economic recessions and high unemployment lead to more business start-ups or are people more likely to become self-employed in periods of economic prosperity? Our analysis for Germany reveals that the cyclical component of real GDP has a negative effect on start-up activities. Moreover, the...
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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Unternehmensgründungen nehmen zu, wenn die Konjunktur abflaut
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 12, pp. 3-8
Führen wirtschaftliche Rezessionen und hohe Arbeitslosigkeit zu mehr Gründungen oder machen sich Menschen eher in Phasen wirtschaftlicher Prosperität selbständig? In jüngerer Zeit hatte eine Unterauslastung der volkswirtschaftlichen Kapazitäten eher stimulierende, ein Konjunkturaufschwung...
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Growth and Entrepreneurship: An Empirial Assessment
Acs, Zoltan J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
of endogenous growth. Rather, a mechanism is required that serves as a conduit for the spillover and commercialization of … knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468183
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Non-market Sources of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism
Acs, Zoltan J.; Phillips, Ronnie J.; Audretsch, David B.; … - In: Non-market Entrepreneurship
As defined by the editors of this book, ‘non-market entrepreneurship’ consists of all forms of entrepreneurship not … such as social enterprise and entrepreneurship, public sector entrepreneurship, policy entrepreneurship, non …-profit entrepreneurship, and philanthropic enterprise, among many others. The eminent cast of contributors gives coherence to the academic and …
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Introduction
Acs, Zoltan J.; Lyles, Alan - In: Obesity, Business and Public Policy
The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition,...
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The Infrastructure of Obesity
Acs, Zoltan J.; Cotten, Ann; Stanton, Kenneth R. - In: Obesity, Business and Public Policy
The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial obesity debate that has spilled over from the medical community. This book is not about obesity as a medical condition,...
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Gibrat’s Law Reconsidered: A Creativity Perspective
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - 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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Backing the horse or the jockey? University knowledge commercialization in the entrepreneurial age
Miller, David J.; Acs, Zoltan J. - In: Knowledge Commercialization and Valorization in …
The commercialization of academic knowledge is increasingly seen as a potential economic development model, particularly for improving the capabilities and economic performance of regions. This insightful volume investigates the emerging factors in knowledge commercialization from an...
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