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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … entrepreneurship in the process of the commercialization of knowledge. We discuss the implications for entrepreneurship and innovation …The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of …
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What turns knowledge into innovative products? The role of entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers
Block, Joern; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Haibo - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 693-718
entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … entrepreneurship in the process of the commercialization of knowledge. We discuss the implications for entrepreneurship and innovation …The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849025
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Industry Dynamics and Entrepreneurship : An Equilibrium Model
Fok, D.; Stel, Andre van; Burke, Andrew E.; Thurik, Roy - 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants' role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198706
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, André van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …, suggesting that risingopportunity costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255529
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
See also the publication in <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255751
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255983
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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256128
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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256131
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Entrepreneurial Exit in Real and Imagined Markets
Stam, Erik; Thurik, Roy; Zwan, Peter van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Industrial and Corporate Change' (2010). Volume 19, issue 4, pages 1109-1139.<P> Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256382
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256507