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The academic entrepreneur : myth or reality for increased regional growth in Europe?

Erdős, Katalin; Varga, Attila - 2010

Knowledge flows from universities to the regional economy can take different forms ranging from formal research collaborations to consultancy and informal personal connections. One of the knowledge communication channels drawing substantial interest of both researchers and regional policy makers...

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Comparative analysis of the implementation of Triple Helix Theory in Greece and Hungary, its impact on the local entrepreneurship and lessons learned from both cases'

Kalman, Aniko; Balomenou, Chrysanthi; Kolovos, Konstantinos - 2014

In the theoretical part of our paper focused on a) The role of the Knowledge / Universities as a leader of Technological change ? Knowledge transfer dynamics and its influence on Regional Development, b) the Entrepreneurship education: The role of the Entrepreneurial University, c) Knowledge...

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Determinants of convergence and disparities in Europe : innovation, entrepreneurship and the processes of clustering : 52th Congress of the European Regional Science Association

Cornett, Andreas P.; Sørensen, Nils Karl - 2012 - Preliminary version

economic activities metropolitan regions can lead to excess growth, and contribute to a process of convergence between nations … location quotients and the change of LQ) are included. Within these groups we study the process of convergence by use of the … traditional measures of convergence. The findings are compared with traditional geographical convergence results, enabling an …

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011

Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and Koster, 2011) have shown that regional start-up rates tend to show a relatively high level of persistence and path dependency over periods of 10-15 years. One main reason for this...

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Digital infrastructure and entrepreneurship : the digital era's enabling effect

Caceres-Diaz, Piero; Usero-Sanchez, María Belén; … - 2019

Scholars have failed to give infrastructure due importance in entrepreneurship studies. Not too far from now, digital infrastructure has been recognized as the most conducive for entrepreneurial activity. Nevertheless, it has not been properly included in opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship...

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The causality between entrepreneurial activities and regional economic growth : case of Turkey

Turgut, Semiha; Akgün, Aliye Ahu - 2015

The effect of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth has been a research agenda for the last two decades. Entrepreneurship, by creating employment, fostering competitiveness or affecting employment, somehow contributes to economic development. While entrepreneurship is mostly defined or...

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The impact of export-oriented entrepreneurship on regional economic growth

González-Pernía, José L.; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - 2011

Although export-oriented new ventures and the field of international entrepreneurship have received considerable attention by scholars during the last decade (Oviatt and McDougla, 2005), their potential economic impact has not been sufficiently analyzed yet. To the best of our knowledge, no...

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Entrepreneurial developments and challenges in the Sud Muntenia region of Romania

Iordan, Marioara; Chilian, Mihaela-Nona - 2011

Entrepreneurship is crucial for the economic development of a region. Using entropy, cluster and shift-share analysis techniques, the authors present a detailed picture of the entrepreneurial milieu of the Sud Muntenia region of Romania, pointing both towards the presence of an overall...

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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth

Noseleit, Florian - 2011

The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...

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Social entrepreneurship : does institutional environment make a difference?

Bernardino, Susana; Santos, J. F.; Ribeiro, José C. - 2015

Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a helpful instrument of social and economic policy. The European Commission, namely, has recognized very early the importance of social organizations on economic growth and social innovation, through their contribution for the development of...

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