microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social capital - social relations that facilitate individual action – is essential …

various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …

information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …

cultural diversity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and sales strategies in London businesses between 2005 and 2007. London is … entrepreneurship. Overall, the results provide some support for claims that diversity is an economic asset, as well as a social benefit. …

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative … UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from the Business Structure Database (BSD), and the Community Innovation … Survey (CIS) to study the relation between self-employment, business creation and innovation. In order to do so, we aggregate …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain … correlates with business creation and innovation in urban areas, but not in rural areas. We also document that more rural than …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …