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Business Start-up Processes in Norway

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Abstract

The Norwegian PSED (NO-PSED) was designed to explore the prevalence and characteristics of potential and actual business founders in Norway, as well as attitudes towards entrepreneurs in the Norwegian context. The focus emphasized business-gestation activities, their sequences and frequencies, and how they are related to the propensity of actually starting a new business. The original objective was to examine the relationships between activities in the start-up process and performance of new businesses in terms of profitability and growth. For reasons to be explained later, these issues received limited attention.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In Norway, all new businesses, regardless of their legal status, will have to register the business as a legal entity to be able to trade legally in the market or hire employees.

  2. 2.

    Based on Magnussen (1997).

  3. 3.

    As reported previously, the number of processes resulting in business start-ups was higher in 1999 (76%), 3 years after initial screening, as could be expected.

  4. 4.

    Based on Alsos and Kolvereid (1998) and Alsos (2007).

  5. 5.

    Based on Alsos and Ljunggren (1998) and Alsos and Ljunggren (2002).

  6. 6.

    Based on Rotefoss (2001) and Rotefoss and Kolvereid (2005)

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The authors would like to thank Paul Reynolds and Andrew Zacharakis for comments on earlier drafts on this article.

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Alsos, G.A., Kolvereid, L. (2011). Business Start-up Processes in Norway. In: Reynolds, P., Curtin, R. (eds) New Business Creation. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 27. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7536-2_8

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