entrepreneurship

This paper investigates the redistributive effects of taxation on occupational choice and growth.

his paper studies 40 years of evolution in the German laser industry to test the generality of evolutionary patterns observed in the U.S. laser industry. A survival analysis finds that, similar to the U.S. industry, laser firm spin-offs have been systematically more successful than academic startups.

The paper is based on a review of findings in the literature that addresses the migrant entrepreneurship experiences of different European countries such as Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Portugal. The focus of the paper is on a comparative evaluation of the various forms of migrant entrepreneurship in European countries.

This paper, based on the ideas of Jovanovic’s theory (1982), analyses the impact of the main strategies determining the competitive behaviour of firms on their survival rate.

In the case of new technologies like nanotechnology, institutional entrepreneurs have to act at different levels (organizational, regional, national) at the same time, according to the authors. This paper reconstructs, in some detail, the history of two cases, in Grenoble and in Twente/Netherlands. They report an intriguing finding: institutional entrepreneurs build their environment before changing their institution.

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success.

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success.

The authors provide an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be affected by the kind of tax and welfare arrangements that may prevail in a mature welfare state. It is argued that the Swedish welfare state early on chose a specific “Swedish Model” of trying to combine ambitious welfare programs and a high tax burden with good opportunities for economic growth.

Based on an extensive data set (cross-section) on commuting flows in Germany, this paper aims to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and spatial labour markets, by employing in particular the concept of entrepreneurial city.

A sample of four-month-old start-ups echoes this finding: as many as 87 percent of new entrepreneurs expect to survive at least three years in business, whereas the actual statistical survival rate is around 60 percent.