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Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation - What is Missing in Turkey?

Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Elif - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses of the Turkish...

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New firm creation and failure: A matching approach

Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start … possible applications of this matching approach to formalize the economics of entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712048

Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy

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

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given … the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the … intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that relationship between entrepreneurship …

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Innovation for the base of the pyramid: Critical perspectives from development studies on heterogeneity and participation

Arora, Saurabh; Romijn, Henny - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

This article criticises current BoP approaches for under-appreciating two issues that play vital roles in projects targeting the poor at the BoP: heterogeneity among the poor, and the intricacies of participatory partnerships between TNCs, the non-profit sector (NGOs) and local poor communities...

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Institutions and economic growth: Summary and synthesis

Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper provides a review and synthesis of the findings of the second phase of a research project on institutions and long-run economic performance. It discusses research findings in five areas, namely (1) the relationship between institutional characteristics and the duration of economic...

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Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth - Lessons from the Indian Software Sector

Athreye, Suma - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied …

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Transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper discusses the progress in transition to knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. As for the methodology, this paper uses updated secondary data obtained from different sources. It uses both descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the OECD definition of knowledge-based economy...

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Overview of the knowledge economy in the Arab region

Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of knowledge and knowledge indicators used in the literature to examine the existence and development of the knowledge economy in the Arab region. We fill the gap in the Arab literature and present a more...

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Poor trends - The pace of poverty reduction after the Millennium Development Agenda

de, Crombrugghe D.P.I.; Szirmai A.; R, Bluhm - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

We review the origins of the dollar-a-day poverty line, discuss historical poverty and inequality trends, and forecast poverty rates until 2030 using a new fractional response approach. Three findings stand out. First, global poverty reduction since 1981 has been rapid but regional trends are...

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Arab regional systems of innovation: characteristics and implications

Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of systems of innovation used in the literature to discuss the systems of innovation in the Arab region. We explain that the two common characteristics of poor Arab regional systems of innovation is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856434

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