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Business models as systemic instruments for the evolution of traditional districts?
Cocchi, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims to explore the potential role of Innovation Intermediaries in the evolution of a traditional cluster toward a service-oriented perspective. In particular, we will highlight the generative function of business models, here as market devices, in stimulating the co- evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323220
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Determinants of entrepreneurial propensity of Nigerian undergraduates: an empirical assessment
Siyanbola, Willie O.; Afolabi, Oladele O.; Jesuleye, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
appropriate policies on entrepreneurship within tertiary institutions. The sample for the study consisted of 7,560 students from a … understand the dynamics of entrepreneurship among Nigerian youth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401316
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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422061
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Nanotechnology and business opportunities: scenarios as awareness instrument
Knol, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
For a few years now, nanotechnology has been recognised as a promising new growth innovator. This leads to a shift from the exploration of nanotechnology knowledge towards a phase of exploitation. The coming years this commercialisation of nanotechnology will be extended. Nanotechnology is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644774
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The effect of taxation on informal employment: evidence from the Russian flat tax reform
Slonimczyk, Fabian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The 2001 Russian tax reform reduced average tax rates for the personal income tax and the payroll or social tax. It also made the tax structure more regressive. Because individuals in the lower income bracket were for the most part not affected, it is possible to estimate the effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644910
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Financial Development, Gender and Entrepreneurship
Llussá, Fernanda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
: access to financial services. We use a dataset with entrepreneurship rates by opportunity and by need from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor and indicators of financial institutions from Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt and Levine (2000) for 41 developed and … entrepreneurial activity, is unlikely, by itself, to contribute to bring male and female entrepreneurship rates closer together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694152
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Are Turkish Enterpreneurs Altrustic? Evidence From Western Black Sea Region
Sarıbaş, Hakan; Yıldırım, Halil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we examine the level of altruistic motive of entrepreneurs who live in three cities of Western Black Sea Region of Turkey, Zonguldak, Bartın and Karabuk. Members of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in these cities were randomly selected and surveyed about four aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727892
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Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a Business
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Abdul; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740567
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963639