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🎙️ Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit — your weekly layover in the thrilling airport of academic discoveries, where each paper is a passport to a new world of thought!
Today’s boarding pass reads: ✈️ “Entrepreneurial Spillovers Across Coworkers” by Melanie Wallskog — a powerful read from the Journal of Financial Economics, one of the elite FT50 journals. This isn’t just another research paper. This is data-driven drama, spanning millions of American workers, showing how entrepreneurial sparks don’t just fly in garages or boardrooms… they light up office breakrooms too. ☕💡
👩💼👨🏿💻 Imagine this: You’re sitting next to a coworker who once built a startup from scratch. You chat over coffee, share war stories, maybe even laugh about their failed pitch. But something sticks. A seed is planted. And one day, you’re the one taking the leap. That’s the magic of what Wallskog calls entrepreneurial spillovers. 🌱🚀
But there’s a twist. These spillovers aren't equally shared. Women and Black workers? They’re missing out—because these workplace inspirations often stay locked within demographic silos. And yet, when these sparks do catch fire, they can lead to more productive ventures than ever imagined.
So here’s today’s big question: Is the next generation of great entrepreneurs sitting in a cubicle right now—waiting for the right coworker to inspire them? 🧑🏽💼💭✨
🎓 Huge thanks to Melanie Wallskog for this thought-provoking paper and to Elsevier for publishing it in the prestigious Journal of Financial Economics. 🙌
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🧠 Until next time — stay curious, stay inspired. 💥
Reference
Wallskog, M. (2025). Entrepreneurial spillovers across coworkers. Journal of Financial Economics, 170, 104077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104077
Open Access Preprint made available on github by author.
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