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University-Incubator Firm Knowledge Flows : Assessing Their Impact on Incubator Firm Performance
Rothaermel, Frank T.; Thursby, Marie C. - 2015
Technology incubators are university-based technology initiatives that should facilitate knowledge flows from the university to the incubator firms. We thus investigate the research question of how knowledge actually flows from universities to incubator firms. Moreover, we assess the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028327
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Job Growth in Early Transition : Comparing Two Paths
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2003
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition. We ask about differences in their growth across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid destruction of pre-existing firms, and the Czech Republic, which reduced the old sector gradually. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080201
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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than … economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … conducted for entrepreneurs with university degree and practical education. The results suggest that education matters for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323729
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From the Ivory Tower to the Startup Garage : Organizational Context and Commercialization Processes
Nelson, Andrew J. - 2014
An impressive literature documents how individual-level factors correlate with entrepreneurship and commercialization behaviors. We have far less insight, however, into how different organizational contexts may, in fact, play a dominant role in shaping these individuals and their behaviors. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054995
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How do Age, Type, Size and Nature Determine Firms’ Entrepreneurial Orientation?
Bedi, Harpreet Singh - 2020
This study clarifies the association of entrepreneurial orientation with the diverse characteristics of a firm. Descriptive, cross sectional research design has been adopted in a survey of 457 key informants from Indian organizations. Second order CFA has been used for the measurement of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839491
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Implementation of ABC System : A Case of a Center for Entrepreneurship
Saidi, Fethi - 2018
The motivation to implement activity-based costing (ABC) in service and academia-oriented institutions are identical to other institutions; to assign indirect costs to products and services based on activities. This study presents and discusses the attempt to develop an ABC stimulation model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926942
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Local Support Mechanisms for Entrepreneurship : The Approach of Local Development and Innovation Institutions
Katimertzopoulos, F. - 2019
Purpose: The growth potential of SMEs entrepreneurship is examined at regional and local level, initially on a Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901543
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Enhancing dynamism in SMEs and entrepreneurship in Korea
Jones, Randall Sidney; Lee, Jae Wan - 2018
inclusive growth. Given the chronic labour shortages facing SMEs, reforming the education system to reduce labour market …Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance … of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914660
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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413646
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Regional growth regimes revisited : the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...
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