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Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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To be born is not enough : the key role of innovative startups

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

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Catching up or lagging behind? : the long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …

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Peer networks and entrepreneurship : a Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2019

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …

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Skills, scope, and success : an empirical look at the start-up process in creative industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Wewel, Solvejg A. - 2018

Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze start-ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the startup process: (1) personal...

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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