How Is Entrepreneurship Good for Economic Growth?

By Zoltan J. Acs. Innovations Technology Governance Globalization, 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The relevance of quantity and quality entrepreneurship for regional performance: the moderating role of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (2018, background): “A consistent finding of many studies is that both entrepreneurship, measured by activity, and the effect of entrepreneurship on performance vary at different development levels (Acs, 2006).”
A Terminal Assessment of Stages Theory: Introducing a Dynamic States Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, positive): “However, while growing entrepreneurial ventures contribute significantly to the economic development of regions and nations (Acs, 2006; Autio, 2007; Leibenstein, 1968), most nascent entrepreneurs express very modest growth ambitions.”
Beyond necessity versus opportunity entrepreneurship: some lessons from English deprived urban neighbourhoods (2011, neutral): “between ‘necessity entrepreneurship’, defined as people who view entrepreneurship as the best option available and not necessarily the preferred option, and ‘opportunity entrepreneurship’, defined as those who engage in entrepreneurship out of choice (Bridge et al. 2003; Acs 2006; Bosma et al. 200”
The rise of the entrepreneurial economy and the future of dynamic capitalism (2013, background): “…in a few regions, such as Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle in North Carolina, or a single country, such as the United States, but rather in most developed countries (Drucker, 1985; Baumol, 2002; Wennekers et al., 2005; Acs, 2006; Baumol et al., 2007; Audretsch, 2007b; The Economist, 2010a).”
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: The Need for Innovative and Institutional Solutions (2017, neutral): “All our variables series are stationary at first difference, indicating that they are integrated at first order (I(1)) in each panel.”
Government support for SME innovations in the regional industries: The case of government financial support program in South Korea (2014, background): “…has been egarded as one of the important drivers of sustainable economic evelopment and growth in this current knowledge-based econmy (Acs, 2006; Acs et al., 2004; Baumol, 2002, 2004; Audretsch and An earlier version of this study was presented at the 14th Uddevalla Sympoium held in…”
A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model (2008, background): “This argument has been developed further in the „knowledge spill-over theory of entrepreneurship‟ (Acs et al., 2004; Acs, 2006; Acs et al., 2007), which represents an extension of, as well as a merger, between the „Romerian‟ and „Schumpeterian‟ models of economic growth.”
Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions (2019, background): “Necessity entrepreneurship ranges from a high of 20.31% in Peru to a low of 0.31% in Denmark. businesses creation, which is relevant for public policy (Acs, 2006; Autio and Acs, 2010; Hessels et al., 2008; Minniti and Lévesque, 2010; Estrin et al., 2013).”
Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, neutral): “By contrast, necessity entrepreneurship, where individuals are pushed into entrepreneurship by circumstances, usually has a more modest impact on economic development (Acs, 2006).”
Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions (2018, neutral): “Most of these studies adopt a transactional cost approach (Acs 2006; Acs et al. 2008; Acs and Szerb 2007) and argue that high-quality economic institutions lower the cost of engaging and managing new business ventures (e.g., by reducing the cost of regulatory burden or uncertainty associated with…”
Institutions and the shaping of different forms of entrepreneurship (2010, background): “Yet we are very aware that in some countries entrepreneurship flourishes and in others much less so (Acs, 2006; Audretsch and Thurik, 2000). As Verheul et al (2002) point out, entrepreneurship scholars appear to agree that the level of entrepreneurial activity varies across both countries and over t”
Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory (2015, background): “In general, the process of entrepreneurship is widely considered to stimulate competition and drive innovation (Audretsch and Thurik 2001; Acs 2002, 2006; Powell 2007; Huggins and Williams 2011).”