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Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - 2005

This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...

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Can Institutional Change Impact High-Technology Firm Growth?: Evidence from Germany's Neuer Markt

Audretsch, David B.; Elston, Julie Ann - 2004

To facilitate the transformation of the German economy from the traditional manufacturing industries towards emerging new technologies, a new segment of the Frankfurt exchange was introduced in 1997 - Der Neue Markt. This study provides evidence that not only did many new firms obtain funding...

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New Firm Survival and Human Capital

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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State of Literature on Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

Ács, Zoltán J.; Kallas, Kadri - 2007

Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...

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Entrepreneurship Capital: Determinants and Impact on Regional Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2005

entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …-tually influence economic performance by generating more entrepreneurial activity. The purpose of this paper is explicitly link these …-ship capital has a positive impact on regional economic performance. …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2004

The neoclassical model of the production, as applied by Robert Solow to built the neoclassical model of growth, linked labor and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the model to include measures of knowledge capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor,...

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Entrepreneurship capital : determinants and impact

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2004

entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and … actually influence economic performance by generating more entrepreneurial activity. The purpose of this paper is to explicitly … capital has a positive impact on regional economic performance. …

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