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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but in … year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year …
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effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …
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integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others. Starting from an … consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various cities involved …
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This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....
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-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …
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This discussion paper led to an article in <I>Technological Forecasting and Social Change</I> (2012). Volume 79, issue 7, pages 1179-1191.<P> Smart high-tech companies are characterized by knowledge intensity and open innovation. Even when these companies emerge in spatial clusters or dense urban places,...</p></i>
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In this paper we investigate whether markets with heterogeneous network externalities can belocked-in by old technologies even if superior technologies are available. Heterogeneous networkexternalities are present when some consumers care more about the size of the market share of agood than...
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This paper studies an intermediated market operated by middlemen with high inventory holdings. I present a directed search model in which middlemen are less likely to experience a stockout because they have the advantage of inventory capacity, relative to other sellers. The model explains why...
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