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| Title: | | Entrepreneurial backgrounds, human capital and start-up success  |
| Authors: | | Baptista, Rui Karaöz, Murat Mendonça, Joana |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2007,045 |
| Abstract: | | We examine whether founders backgrounds influence new firm survival in the early years after start-up. We develop hypotheses linking founders back-grounds to pre-entry capabilities associated with entrepreneurial human capital, highlighting the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored. We find that specific human capital more frequently found in spin-off founders plays a key role in enhancing survival chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the critical early years after start-up. |
| Subjects: | | Founders backgrounds Human capital Start-up Success Pre-entry capabilities Spin-offs Habitual entrepreneurs |
| JEL: | | D21 L10 M13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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