Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy.Creative metropolises base …

This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …

-dependent so that changes are relatively small. The main factors determining the level of regional start-ups are innovation and … entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper … starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an … overview of theory and empirical research on the relation between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth. The paper …

agency theory, assigning managersstock options aligns their interests with the interests of the owners of the firm.This paper … incentives with the owners’ goals, as agencytheory predicts, it also grants top managers residual control rights to be used …

globalization. It is a model based on growth, expansion and constant innovation. However, it is accompanied by social problems which … from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship … opportunity. As a nonmarket and nonstate mechanism, philanthropy is unique in its structure and operations, and may offer the …

village, Sethu recognized an opportunity for a "better rat trap" to aid the Irula rat catchers. With feedback from rat … catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from … the World Bank which provided the funding necessary to commercialize the new technology. The venture's implementation …