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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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Does Criticisms Overcome the Praises of Journal Impact Factor?
Fooladi, Masood; Salehi, Hadi; Md Yunus, Melor; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Journal impact factor (IF) as a gauge of influence and impact of a particular journal comparing with other journals in the same area of research, reports the mean number of citations to the published articles in particular journal. Although, IF attracts more attention and being used more...
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Communication and Information Studies Curricula – Instrument for the Internal and External Cross-Border Communication of the EU
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
EU Communication and Information Studies represent an opportunity for curricula development within the European universities. At the same time, this new field stands for an important challenge to make human resources able to settle and use the tools for the internal and external cross-border...
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Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries after EU Enlargement (2004)
Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present analysis has been inspired by the book entitled The Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Central and East-European Countries – Agenda Ahead, edited by Jan KOHOUTEK, UNESCO-CEPES, Studies on Higher Education, Bucharest, 2009, presenting the outcome of the Research Plan...
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Do College Entrance Examination Scores Predict Undergraduate GPAs? A Tale of Two Universities
Bai, Chong-en; Chi, Wei; Xiaoye, Qian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the …. We also consider high school achievement and admission route in predicting college grades. We obtain administrative data … is similar for the two universities. High school achievement and admission routes are also significant predictors of …
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Romanian-Hungarian cross-border cooperation at various territorial levels, with a particular study of the Debrecen-Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperati...
Toca, Constantin-Vasile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The objective of the doctoral thesis “Research on different territorial levels of Romanian-Hungarian Cross-Border Cooperation with special emphasis on Debrecen – Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation EGTC)” is to emphasize the importance of the cross border...
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Economic Analysis of Carnegie Mellon University
Alphin Jr., Henry C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research institution of higher education that is housed in a city that has undergone, and is still undergoing, the change from a manufacturing hub to a center of knowledge enterprise. Although colleges and universities are part of a local oligopoly, CMU is...
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Does the Way in which Students Use Computers Matter for their Performance?
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
computer usage both at home and at school of 15-years-old Italian students. Using the PISA 2006 dataset and controlling for a … wide range of individual and school characteristics, our results suggest that students using the computer at home very … computer usage at school, it emerges that student achievement increases with the intensity of computer use but the effect …
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Promoting intercultural dialogue through Lifelong Learning Policies
Chirodea, Florentina; Toca, Constantin - Vasile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A dominant phenomenon in the last decades of the past century and the first decades of the 21st century is that of globalisation. The European Union emphasises more and more the role of education as a real element of reducing the distances between the member states, while stimulating the...
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey. We contribute to the literature on the economic value of...
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