entrepreneurship

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.

The paper seeks to offer a policy framework for fostering entrepreneurship in rural regions in the U.S. as a strategy for generating economic development. The author argues that any viable solution must be regional in scope.

The paper examines where rural America stands in the landscape of entrepreneurial activity. Results indicate that rural areas saw a great deal of new firm formation during the 1990s, mostly in service and tourism.

After a decade of widespread attention for the entrepreneurial efforts of individuals, the focus seems to partly shift to companies and their contribution to new firm formation, according to the author. Much in line with common studies of regional variance in entrepreneurial activity, this paper presents an explanatory model for the spatial differences in occurrence of spin-offs,

The aim of this paper is to investigate gender-based differences in a special field of entrepreneurship the so-called ethnic entrepreneurship, and to describe male and female profiles of ethnic entrepreneurs and enterprises.