TY - UNPB

T1 - Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb

T2 - Nascent necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs in Germany evidence from the regional entrepreneurship monitor (REM)

AU - Wagner, Joachim

N1 - Financial support by the German Research Foundation DFG under grants WA 610/2-1 and WA 610/2-2 for the project Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany is gratefully acknowledged. The first part of the title (that translates literally to “Obeying need, not my own inclination”) is, obviously, a tribute to Friedrich von Schiller – see his Die Braut von Messina (Erster Aufzug, Erster Auftritt). This paper is my contribution to the Schillerjahr, celebrated in 2005 to commemorate his death on May 9th, 1805.

PY - 2005/5

Y1 - 2005/5

N2 - Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur, and that they behave differently. Given the lack of longitudinal data, however, we have no information about the performance of entrepreneurs from both groups in the longer run

AB - Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur, and that they behave differently. Given the lack of longitudinal data, however, we have no information about the performance of entrepreneurs from both groups in the longer run

KW - Economics

KW - necessity entrepreneurship

KW - opportunity entrepreneurship

KW - Germany

KW - REM

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working paper series in economics

BT - Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -