Student achievement has been identified as an important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the … international comparative student achievement tests in Mathematics and Science for over 70 countries during the period 1980 to 2003 … achievement are negative and seem to be robust across different model specifications. The effect of social expenditures appears to …

obtained on basic values, some standard personality dimensions such as those specified in the five-factor model, social … accounted for by measures of personality according to the five-factor model, but performance measures were not. Finally, the …

dimensions of work motivation and personality, and work performance. It was found that EI was related as expected to other …. EI emerged as a dimension possible to measure and with expected properties. …

entrepreneurship research. …

, and pharmaceuticals and biotech sectors (N = 4,397). We follow these firms from 1993 to 2002 and measure their … agglomeration and different regional levels. <p> Thid study contributes to the literatures on entrepreneurship and economic …

1990 and 2002. Drawing upon economic theories of human capital and spin-out entrepreneurship, we investigate if knowledge … knowledge bases. Our findings offer contributions to the emerging literature on spin-out entrepreneurship and to research on … entrepreneurship in services. …

important since the entrepreneurship literature has yet to theorize and examine the triggering effects of well-being on the …

entrepreneurship waned in importance, the general public grew increasingly hostile towards capitalism, and by the late 1970s explicit … increasingly predominant, did not foresee the revival of entrepreneurship that took place in the Western countries around 1980. …

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … creation. In this study we provide an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be … intrapreneurship can substitute for entrepreneurship. However, in an environment where entry, exit and turnover of firms are important …