Dynamics of New Firm Formation: Impacts of Economic and Technology Policy

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

10-2004

Abstract

This study investigates how entrepreneurial policies that encompass opportunity, individual, and resource aspects of entrepreneurship explain dynamics of new firm formation in a country. We rely on the Schumpeterian, industrial organization economics, and organizational ecology traditions, and performed an exploratory test with a longitudinal U.S. data (1968-1993). The results of this study suggest that technological knowledge capital, economic opportunity structure, labor mobility, and a nation's carrying capacity for entrepreneurial activities are important areas in which government policy can positively influence the intensity of new firm formation.

Discipline

Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics | Corporate Finance | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

Research Areas

Finance

Publication

Proceedings: IEEE 2004 International Engineering Management Conference: Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development, 18-21 October 2004, Singapore

First Page

703

Last Page

707

ISBN

9780780385191

Identifier

10.1109/IEMC.2004.1407470

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Singapore

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