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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...

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New firm creation and failure: A matching approach

Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 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. …

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"Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations

Naudé, Wim; Amoros, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012

entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …

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Bridging the Financing Gap for Pro-Poor Innovation: Towards a Framework

Sonne, Lina - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

In many developing countries, pro-poor entrepreneurship and innovation is facing a financing gap. Such innovation …

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Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Stam, Erik; Stel, Andre van - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …

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Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs

Amsden, Alice - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...

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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

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The Productivity Effects of Internal and External R&D: Evidence From a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Lokshin, Boris; Belderbos, René; Carree, Martin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of Dutch manufacturing firms. We apply a dynamic linear panel data model that allows for decreasing or increasing returns to scale in internal and external R&D and for economies of scope. We find...

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How do social capital and government support affect innovation and growth? Evidence from the EU regional support programmes

Akcomak, Semih; Ter Weel, Bas - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

innovation output and economic growth for regions of the European Union from 1990-2002. Using several measures of social capital … and innovation, and the European Union’s Objective 1, 2 and 5b figures for EU regional support, the estimates suggest that …

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What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?

Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

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