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Towards the Entrepreneurial UniversityTowards the Entrepreneurial University
Managing Student Intellectual PropertyManaging Student Intellectual Property

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Mapping Graduate Enterprise
Making the Journey from Student to Entrepreneur: A Review of Existing Research into Graduate Entrepreneurship
Graduates in Self-Employment
Entrepreneurship Education and Integrative Learning
Enterprise, Social Enterprise and Critical Pedagogy: Reinventing the HE Curriculum
Towards the Entrepreneurial University: Entrepreneurship Education as a Lever for Change
Graduate Entrepreneurship in the UK 2004: A Preliminary Policy Paper Based on GEM 2004 data
Student Debt and Graduate Entrepreneurship: An Examination of the UK Situation and International Experience
Graduate Entrepreneurship: Process of Change
Nurturing Graduate Entrepreneurship in 21st Century Universities: A Regional Perspective
Managing Student Intellectual Property
Entrepreneurship Champions in Welsh Higher Education
Graduate Career Choices and Entrepreneurship
Development Patterns of Southampton Graduates
Career-Making: Graduating into Self-Employment
Understanding the Factors Influencing Graduate Entrepreneurship
Access to Start-up Finance for Ethnic Minority Graduate Entrepreneurs
Graduate Entrepreneurship in the UK: Summary Report from GEM UK Data
Good Practice in Enterprise Development in UK Higher Education
An exploration of the term Commercial awareness: What it means to employers and students
An exploration of the term Commercial awareness: What it means to employers and students
New Economics Papers Entrepreneurship: Spinoffs and the Market for Ideas
If you are so smart, why aren\'t you an entrepreneur? Returns to cognitive and social ability: Entrepreneurs versus employees
Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups
The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment
International Entrepreneurship: Value Creation Across National Borders
Internationalization of European SMEs towards Emerging Markets
Causal Link between Exporting and Innovation Activity. Evidence from Slovenian Firms
Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental State: Lessons Date the Advanced Economies
Ties configuration in entrepreneurs’ personal network and economic performances in African urban informal economy
External orientation of second generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam
Clusters as vehicles for entrepreneurial innovation and new idea generation : a critical assessment
Local shopkeepers’ associations and ethnic minority entrepreneurs
The Strategic Determinants of Tardy Entry: Is Timeliness Next to Godliness?
The effects of R&D tax credits on patenting and innovations
Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Entrepreneurship, Collective Entrepreneurship and the Producer-Owned Firm
Financial development, entrepreneurship, and job satisfaction
Businessman or Host? Individual Differences between Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in the Hospitality Industry
Entrepreneurial Proclivity and the Performance of Farms: The Cases of Dutch and Slovenian Farmers
Determinants of self-employment : the case in Vietnam.
Entry and Exit of firms explained by trigger points: Dutch glasshouse horticulture
Market Driven Entrepreneurship: The Convergence of Market Orientation and the Resource Based View
Modelling the Incidence of Self-Employment: Individual and Employment Type Heterogeneity.
New Producer Strategies: The Emergence of Patron- Driven Entrepreneurship
Collective Reputation, Entry and Minimum Safety Standard
Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery
THE GENERATIONAL TURNOVER IN AGRICULTURE: THE AGEING DYNAMICS AND THE EU SUPPORT POLICIES TO YOUNG FARMERS
Firms as bundles of discrete resources - towards an explanation of the exponential distribution of firm growth rates.
Gender, family situation and the exit event: reassessing the opportunity-costs of business ownership
Incubator Age and Incubation Time: Determinants of Firm Survival after Graduation?
Alternative Approaches to the Development of Early Childhood Education in Singapore
Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges
Banking financing for Romanian SMEs – challenges and opportunities
The relation between entrepreneurship and economic development: is it U-shaped?
Agency and similarity effects and the VC\'s attitude towards academic spin-out investing
Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
Unpacking the \"institutional portfolio\" theoretical elements for an analysis of institutional change through objectification of resources and habitus
Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Barriers to Entry and Profitability
The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Entrepreneurial Success and Failure: Confidence and Fallible Judgement
Skill, Luck, Overconfidence, and Risk Taking
Spin-offs: theory and evidence
Credit constraints, organizational choice, and returns to capital: Evidence from a rural industrial cluster in China
Product innovation and firm survival in a network industry
Limited participation or sticky prices? New evidence from firm entry and failures
Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur
Investigating the Anatomy of the Employment Effects of New Business Formation
Supporting Measures for Research & Development as a Stimulus for Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship in Estonia
Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, and Wage Growth
Creative Destruction and Regional Productivity Growth: Evidence from the Dutch Manufacturing and Services Industries
Fostering Entrepreneurship for Innovation
Entrepreneurship and Development - local processes and global patterns
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
Return Migration and Occupational Choice
The role of R&D in new firm growth
Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs
Persistence of Profits and the Systematic Search for Knowledge - R&D and profits above the norm
IECER Conference – five years of entrepreneurship research: Topics and Trends
Geographical environments for entrepreneurship
Mapping entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial attitudes in European regions
British Indian and Chinese Student, Graduate and Academic International Entrepreneurship
Research universities and regional high-tech firm start-ups and exit
Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
To Be Financed or Not … - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Firm Entry Dynamics and Taxation of Corporate Profits: Evidence from Europe
Firm size, managerial practices and innovativeness: some evidence from Finnish manufacturing
A Model of Collateral, Investment, and Adverse Selection
Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics
Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach
An Empirical Analysis of the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth in West Viriginia
The decision to innovate: Antecedents of opportunity exploitation in high tech small firms
Short-run Birth and Death of U.S. Manufacturing Firms: 2000 - 2005
Relationship Lending and Firm Innovativeness
Taxation and Capital Structure: evidence from a transition economy
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment
What makes start-ups out of unemployment different?
Financial Signaling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs
New small firms and dimensions of economic performance
Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
A Novel Approach to Incubator Evaluations: The PROMETHEE Outranking Procedures
Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs
New Firm Formation and Economic Development in a Globalizing Economy
Exporting quality: is it the right strategy for the Italian manufacturing sector?
Proximity and Innovation in Italian SMEs
Relationship Lending - Empirical Evidence for Germany
Optimistic, but not in Control: Life-Orientation and the Theory of mixed Control
Geographic Proximity and Firm-University Innovation Linkages: evidence from Great Britain
Regional Financial System and the Financial Structure of Small Firms
Where does regulation hurt? Evidence from new businesses across countries
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?
Does social capital create trust? Evidence from a community of entrepreneurs
Impact assessment of an entrepreneurship course on students’ entrepreneurial competencies: a constructivist perspective
Human Resource challenges for growing SMEs. How Flemish entrepreneurs attract, develop and retain employees
The European venture capital and private equity country attractiveness index(es)
Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
The Entrepreneurial Adjustment Process in Disequilibrium
Latina Entrepreneurship
Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis for Germany
Financial Signalling by Innovative Nascent Entrepreneurs
Market Size and Entrepreneurship
Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment
The dynamics of entrepreneurship in ICT: case of mobile phones downstream services in Kenya
Learning and Microlending
Labor Laws and Innovation
Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
Relaxed Dismissal Protection: Effects on the Hiring and Firing Behaviour of Small Firms
Start-ups as drivers of incumbent firm mobility: An analysis at the region-sector level for the Netherlands
Business Cycle Evidence on Firm Entry
Agency and similarity effects and the VC’s attitude towards academic spin-out investing
The Dynamics of Entry and Exit
On the impact of trade on industrial structures: The role of entry cost heterogeneity
The business of product innovation : international empirical evidence
The Effect of Credit Rationing on the Shape of the Competition-Innovation Relationship
The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development
The impact of the business environment on the business creation process
Innovative firms or innovative owners ? determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises
Entrepreneurship in post-conflict transition : the role of informality and access to finance
Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries
Modeling excess profit
Semi-Public Contests
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
Science-Based R&D in Schumpeterian Growth
Enterprise Education: Embedding Practioner Experience