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Roy Thurik
Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publications - 411
Citations - 34875
Roy Thurik is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Per capita income. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 405 publications receiving 31531 citations. Previous affiliations of Roy Thurik include Econometric Institute & Indiana University.
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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers
TL;DR: The authors used the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship to explain different innovation outcomes and found that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new to the firm innovation.
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Postmaterialism influencing total entrepreneurial activity across nations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how postmaterialism may explain the differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries and suggest that other than economic factors are at play, such as demographic and social factors.
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Drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations at the country level: the role of start-up motivations and social security
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether various start-up motivations and a country's level of social security can explain the prevalence of entrepreneurial aspirations and found that entrepreneurial aspirations in terms of job growth and export relate positively to the increase wealth motive.
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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses can be found in this paper, with a discussion of four literature strands based on this review and an overview of contributions in this special issue.
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Entrepreneurship and culture
Roy Thurik,Marcus Dejardin +1 more
TL;DR: There is evidence of a U-shaped relationship between the level of business ownership (self-employment) and per capita income (Carree, Van Stel, Carree and Thurik 2005; Suddle, Beugelsdijk and Wennekers 2010).