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The new intellectual property race: Run, walk, or sit it out? Entrepreneur perceptions of the America Invents Act
Craig Silvernagel, George Langelett, Brian TandeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how entrepreneurs are reacting to the recent change in patent priority rules under the America Invents Act (AIA). The authors sought to…
Regional integration and entrepreneurship: evidence from European Union
Danko TarabarThe purpose of this paper is to empirically uncover the relationship between economic integration and levels of entrepreneurial activity across 24 EU countries between 2004 and…
Institutions, human capital and entrepreneurial orientation: implications for growth policy
Thanti Mthanti, Kalu OjahThe purpose of this paper is to establish a more robust empirical support for the long established postulation by Adam Smith and Joseph Schumpeter that human capital and…
On business short-termism: the case of CVS’s discontinuing tobacco sales
Chase Gooding, E. Frank StephensonThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of CVS’s decision to stop tobacco sales on the company’s share price.
Bargaining over crowdfunding benefits
Marco BadeCrowdfunding creates multifaceted benefits for different agents who all desire to extract some of these benefits. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the allocation of…
Assessing growth in occupational licensing of low-income occupations: 1993-2012
Edward Timmons, Brian Meehan, Andrew Meehan, John HazenstabThe purpose of this paper is to document the changes in low- and moderate-income occupational licensing over time.