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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
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The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...
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The concept of social entrepreneurship as a characterization of social responsibility forbusiness organizations has … entrepreneurship, and how the BoP is defined.Confusion arises from the absence of generally accepted definitions for both terms … clarify what constitutes social entrepreneurship serving theBOP segment of the population, and how the BoP may be defined to …
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from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
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This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...
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It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role ineconomic development. Internationalization theory is used to explore how inward FDIimpacts entrepreneurial activity. Using data from the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor we find significant differences in...
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entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. .. …
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New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...
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Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economicdevelopment has been subjected to … subsequent empirical evidence havedemonstrated that income distribution has a significant impact on human capital formationand …, in the presence of credit constraints, has stimulated human capital formationand growth. Moreover, unequal distribution …
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