significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …

performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly …-up phase of business have quite a substantial negative influence on performance as measured by the survival probability of the …

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 …

performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education … year t and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …

The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …