The paper uses a large representative sample of the German population to test the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The study concludes that regions with young and small firms today will have them tomorrow and regions without a large population of hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs will not have much of them in the future.
The report from the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices indicates that states must develop a supportive environment for entrepreneurs to prosper in an increasingly competitive global economy. Instead of developing competitive cluster-based models, the report observes, most state economic development efforts continue to be organized around traditional business retention and incentive-based industry recruitment programs.
The authors examine the rates of entrepreneurial activity in post-socialist economies, and attempt to uncover the policies and institutions that appear to be the most highly correlated with a country’s success (or failure) in promoting entrepreneurial activity.
In this paper, the authors analyze the role of borrowing constraints as determinants of entrepreneurial decisions (entry, continuation, investment, and saving), and their effects on wealth inequality and aggregate capital accumulation, in a framework that matches the observed wealth inequality very closely.
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, the authors examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on employment growth in Local Market Areas.
The author presents a theory of entrepreneurial entry and exit decisions. Knowing their own managerial talent, entrepreneurs decide which market to enter, where markets differ in size.
The report evaluates different aspects of self-employment and studies computer ownership and usage by the self-employed and relies on data from the Current Population Survey Internet and Computer Use Supplement for 1998 and 2000, which is produced by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, this study explores the expected start-up costs of nascent entrepreneurs.
The paper explores obstacles in the growth of academic start-ups and potential policies to overcome these obstacles, focusing on start-ups from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
This study deals with entrepreneurial competitiveness in traditional industries. The objective is to present a methodological process for the study and evaluation of the impact of the sinérgic geographical concentration of an industry in its competitiveness.