High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth

Arbeitspapier

This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are interpreted in light of the ongoing debate about public policies designed to stimulate high growth start-ups.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,019

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices ; Business Objectives of the Firm ; New Firms; Startups ; Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General ; Comparative Studies of Countries
• Thema: entrepreneurial activity ; high growth entrepreneurs ; growth ambitions ; high growth start-ups ; public policy ,economic growth ; Unternehmer ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Unternehmensgründung ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; Welt ; Transformationsstaaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stam, Erik ; Suddle, Kashifa ; Hessels, S. Jolanda A. ; van Stel, André J.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25593
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ