entrepreneurship

This study examines the impact of entrepreneurs’ network structure and knowledge homogeneity/heterogeneity of their network members on product development, and revenue growth of software ventures in China and Russia. The study found that structural holes and knowledge heterogeneity affect positively product diversity in interactive ways.

In the study, the authors aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship.

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. Empirical results confirm two distinct relationships between unemployment and self-employment, i.e. "refugee" and "entrepreneurial" effects.

This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002).

The paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Findings indicate that entrepreneurial activity by nascent entrepreneurs and owner/managers of young businesses affects economic growth, but that this effect depends upon the level of per capita income.

The authors review and evaluate some recent contributions on the modeling of entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework, analyzing how and to what extent the fundamental ingredients suggested in the social science literature were captured. They show how these approaches are important in stressing the main elements of a complex picture without being able to completely describe it.

The report uses longitudinal tax return data to
measure the responsiveness of individual tax filers to changes in marginal income tax rates with respect to their choices to engage in entrepreneurial activity.

The report gauges Pennsylvania’s entrepreneurial position and provides the basis for continued improvement strategies. It is divided into the five stages of the business lifecycle: concept, formation, growth, maturity, and reinvention. In describing these stages, the report outlines the needs of companies at each stage and provides insight as to which Pennsylvania TBED organizations may help firms to meet those needs.

The authors study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. Findings indicate that varied experience and job dissatisfaction are directly related to the probability of having entrepreneurial aspirations and aspirations to switch job, while job tenure is inversely related to them.

Michie P. Slaughter, chairman of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, reviews the keys he learned during his 17-year career as vice president of human resources and member of the board of Marion Laboratories.