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Contents
Abstract...........VI
Contents...........IX
Chapter 1 Introduction ........... 1
1.1 Research background......... 1
1.2 Research questions.. 2
1.3 Research structure ... 2
Chapter 2 Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Effect. 4
2.1 Definition of entrepreneurial activity and measurement issue ....... 4
2.2 Definition of economic effect and theoretical base5
Chapter 3 Entrepreneurial Activities in China...... 10
3.1 Background of recent vigorous entrepreneurial activity in China10
3.2 Entrepreneurial rent........... 13
3.3 Entrepreneurship and institution change... 15
3.4 Entrepreneurship and regional economic growth.. 17
3.5 Chinese entrepreneurship literature and problem.. 19
Chapter 4 Employment Effect of Entrepreneurial Activities ...... 27
4.1 Literature review ... 27
4.1.1 Introduction..... 27
4.1.2 Employment effect of entrepreneurial activity ........... 28
4.2 Empirical model.... 37
4.2.1 Empirical equation1: static model ...... 37
4.2.2 Empirical equation 2: dynamic model 41
4.3 Estimation results .. 43
4.3.1 Static model .... 43
4.3.2 Dynamic model........... 44
4.4 Conclusion 50
Chapter 5 SOE Reform and Entrepreneurial Activity .......... 52
5.1 Literature review ... 52
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5.1.1 Introduction..... 52
5.1.2 Entrepreneurial activity in two different time period . 53
5.2 Empirical model and data description....... 57
5.3 Empirical result ..... 59
5.4 Conclusion. 63
Chapter 6 Growth Promotion Effect of Entrepreneurial Activities........ 64
6.1 Literature review ... 64
6.1.1 Introduction..... 64
6.1.2 Endogenous growth and knowledge spillover 65
6.2 Empirical model: Augmented model of Acs et al. (2004). 70
6.3 Data description.... 73
6.4 Empirical result ..... 74
6.5 Conclusion. 80
Chapter 7 Innovation Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity. 81
7. 1 Literature review .. 81
7.1.1 Introduction..... 81
7.1.2 Innovation effect of entrepreneurial activity and knowledge spillover .......... 82
7.2 Model design and data description 87
7.3 Estimation results .. 90
7.3.1 Estimation result of binary type spatial weight matrix........... 90
7.3.2 Estimation results with stepwise distance-based spatial weight matrix ......... 92
7. 4 Conclusion 94
Chapter 8 Conclusion........... 96
8.1 Summary ... 96
8.2 Discussion . 98
8.2.1 Entrepreneurial activities in China ..... 98
8.2.2 Different role of entrepreneurial activities and R&D activities in China ..... 100
8.3 Contribution ........ 103
8.4 Limitation 105
8.5 Further research... 106
Reference...... 107
Appendix A....115
Acknowledgement.... 125
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Career and Publication ........ 127