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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.

D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996

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The European Cohesion policy and the promotion of entrepreneurship. The case of Andalusia

Romero, Isidoro; Fernández-Serrano, José - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 29, pp. 215-236

This paper discusses the significance, trends and achievements of the entrepreneurship and small and medium … entrepreneurial culture and business environment conditions unfavourable to entrepreneurship have traditionally acted as structural … obstacles to regional development in Andalusia. In order to face this problem, the role of the entrepreneurship policy within …

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional development: an introduction to this special issue

Guerrero, Maribel; Peña-Legazkue, Peña-Legazkue , Iñaki - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 05-15

have analyzed the complicated endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, but these studies have …

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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess spin-offs from a university-based technology transfer network. We first detect the regional objectives, inputs and outputs needed to assess spin-offs from support programmes. We then provide evidence on regional mechanisms for firm creation....

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Guanxi, performance and innovation in entrepreneurial service projects.

Arribas, Iván; Hernández, Penélope; Vila, Jose E. - Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar Comportament … - 2012

This paper analyzes the role played by two dimensions of entrepreneurs’ private social capital in the survival, growth and innovativeness of entrepreneurial service ventures: local size and preferential attachment degree. We build a bi-dimensional measure of social capital based on network...

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Nuevas empresas e instituciones de apoyo: el caso de la promocion empresarial en los ambitos rurales y urbanos de Cataluna

Urbano, David; Vaillant, Yancy; Toledano, Nuria - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2007) 214

administrations to achieve these objectives. This study uses the institutional theory to analyse the entrepreneurship support measures … entrepreneurship support programmes and measures in the Garrotxa, a rural country, and the Valles Occidental, an urban county of …

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Methodological Challenges and Institutional Barriers in the Use of Experimental Method for the Evaluation of Business Incubators: Lessons from the US, EU, and China

Yu, Junbo; Nikjamp, Peter Nijkamp - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2010

Despite their worldwide adoption by policy makers as the Holy Grail for entrepreneurship and business development, the …

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The Role of Institutions of Private Property Rights and Money in Entreprenurial Discovery

Stalebrink, Odd; Sacco, John; Bushee, Gerald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007

This paper examines the influence of private property rights and monies on entrepreneurial discovery. A framework is presented and tested, which views these two institutions as key determinants of entrepreneurial discovery. Using several measures as proxies for their influence, two variables,...

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

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Chinaâ€™s Institutional Architecture: A New Institutional Economics and Organization Theory Perspective on the Links between Local Governance and Local Enterprises

Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008

We start our exploration of Chinaâ€™s institutional change by asking what the China experience can tell us about institutional economics and organization theory. We point to under-researched areas such as the formation of firms and the interplay between firms and local politics. Our...

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