entrepreneurship

This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive database on venture-backed companies. Findings indicate that entrepreneurial activities among university employees concentrate in biotechnology and information technology industries.

This essay argues that the emerging interest in entrepreneurial development strategies is the start of something new, but does not yet reflect a coherent and comprehensive alternative model for state and local economic development policies.

This paper explores the potential of the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) in the analysis of entrepreneurship. It is found that these data are excellent for analyzing a certain sort of self-employed individuals who exercise their profession on their own account.

The effect of foreign-owned companies on entrepreneurial survival in the Finnish business sector is analyzed by using a new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. According to the results, foreign-owned companies crowd out local entrepreneurship.

The returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs, unlike for employees, have not yet been estimated by methods coping with the potential endogeneity problem. The authors estimate the RTE for entrepreneurs and employees while testing for and coping with this problem.

The paper reports the results of a panel data study among a representative sample of 6,111 young U.S. citizens who have been interviewed on a regular basis over a period of about two decades. Findings reveal that internality affects earnings positively, that this effect is stronger for entrepreneurs, and that education positively interacts with internality

Drawing from entrepreneurship theory, the author proposes an alternative perspective from which to approach country risk. By focusing on both the downside and upside elements of country risk, strategies may be devised to harvest upside volatility while containing downside volatility.

The paper emphasizes the interplay between subsidiary entrepreneurship and the subsidiarys competitive environment—it shows how certain subsidiary attributes emerge as a function of these factors, and how they ultimately affect the performance of the subsidiary. Specific hypotheses are developed and tested on 24 Multinational Subsidiaries in Scotland.

The paper reviews and evaluates the current status of research dealing with entrepreneurship, social capital and trust. The proposed framework rests on the recognition that entrepreneurial activities are results of social interactions and mechanisms.

The report from the National Commission on Entrepreneurship and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness is part of a preliminary research dedicated to understanding the growth of entrepreneurial development programs and the effect they have on the economy. The findings indicate that state and local governments are starting to develop entrepreneurship programs, but the past decades progress could be threatened by the looming fiscal crisis facing such states as Maine, Nevada and Pennsylvania.