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Entrepreneurship and innovation in a hybrid political order: The case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Bonnet, Jean - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012

Cet article examine les relations entre l’entrepreneuriat et le développement économique. Le modèle économique actuel donne à l’entrepreneuriat une importance cruciale dans le développement économique des années récentes. A ce titre le rôle, la culture, l’éducation, la volonté...

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Developing Innovative Competences in an Emerging Business System: New Private Enterprises in Hangzhou’s Software Industry

Greeven, Greeven, M.J.; Xiaodong, Xiaodong, Z. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

What kind of innovative competences are credibly developed by private entrepreneurs in China’s transition economy? On the basis of original empirical fieldwork in 45 software enterprises in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, we propose a working theory of innovative competence development in an...

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Blue Ocean versus Competitive Strategy: Theory and Evidence

van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy; Burke, Burke, A.E. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Blue ocean strategy seeks to turn strategic management on its head by replacing ‘competitive advantage’ with ‘value innovation’ as the primary goal where firms must create consumer demand and exploit untapped markets. Empirical analysis has been focused on case study evidence and so...

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Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia

Gebreeyesus, Mulu - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

survey data from Ethiopia that comprise 1000 observations with ten and fewer workers. The analysis shows that firms larger in …

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International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

Brach, Juliane; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

In this paper we investigate the extent of international entrepreneurship in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Syria …

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Standardisation as a Catalyst for Innovation

Blind, Blind, K. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Het traditionele beeld dat standaardisatie gezien wordt als een proces dat niet samengaat met innovatie is de laatste jaren veranderd. In zijn oratie laat prof.dr. Knut Blind zien dat vastgestelde normen wel degelijk kunnen bijdragen aan vernieuwingen. Vanuit economisch perspectief behandelt...

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Stages Of Discovery And Entrepreneurship

Nooteboom, Bart - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2003

In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …

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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

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