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Sameeksha Desai

Researcher at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Publications -  78
Citations -  2794

Sameeksha Desai is an academic researcher from Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 76 publications receiving 2223 citations. Previous affiliations of Sameeksha Desai include George Mason University & Indiana University.

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The good, the bad, and the talented: Entrepreneurial talent and selfish behavior

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that making a distinction between creative and business talent explains systematic differences in selfish behavior and that both the less business-talented and the more creative are more willing to forego private payoffs to avoid losses to others.
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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

TL;DR: The role of entrepreneurship in economic development is the subject of much interest to academic and policy circles alike as discussed by the authors, and entrepreneurship is often credited with many positive changes in developing countries, at the very least, it is associated with job creation, wealth creation, innovation and related welfare effects.
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Creativity, entrepreneurship and economic development: city-level evidence on creativity spillover of entrepreneurship

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the black box of creativity, entrepreneurship and economic development by asking about the mechanisms through which creativity can influence economic development in cities and propose that, like the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, creativity spillovers occur and can be slowed by a creativity filter.
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A new industry creation and originality: Insight from the funding sources of university patents

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how research context is associated with patent originality and find that when university scientists are partly funded by their own university, they have a higher propensity to generate more original patents than scientists funded either by industry or other non-university organizations.
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Refugee entrepreneurship : context and directions for future research

TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of future directions for research related to refugee entrepreneurship, including key concepts, explores the relations within the current broader literature on migration and entrepreneurship, and identifies several promising clusters of questions.