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Nanotechnology and business opportunities: scenarios as awareness instrument
Knol, Erik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
For a few years now, nanotechnology has been recognised as a promising new growth innovator. This leads to a shift from the exploration of nanotechnology knowledge towards a phase of exploitation. The coming years this commercialisation of nanotechnology will be extended. Nanotechnology is a...
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Entrepreneurship. How important are institutions and culturally-based prior beliefs?
Ferrante, Francesco; Ruiu, Gabiele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
entrepreneurship; c) institutions matter for entrepreneurship and growth but, somehow, in unconventional ways. … growing literature considers culturally-based beliefs and institutions as main drivers of the latter differences (Guiso et al …. 2006; Tabellini 2010). The intuition is that institutions and beliefs affect the incentive to accumulate human and physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258267
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Medellín: Una ciudad hacia el sector servicios y los efectos en el empleo
Tamayo, Vélez; Mauricio, Julián - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
ABSTRACT Medellín became the capital city of Antioquia when a change in the production paradigm was established: the change of mining to agricultural and livestock production farm, which allowed the emergence of a fledgling industry in a city that, did not have the features expected to be...
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Financing Creative Destruction
Samaniego, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper uncovers evidence of s potentially important channel linking financial development to growth: the financing … in research-intensive industries are found to be disproportionately sensitive to the level of financial development …. Furthermore, financial development is related to increased R&D spending. The results are robust to several different measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565948
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The way things are done here – Polish entrepreneurship - having endowned heritage or burden?
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259343
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260930
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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211239
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Entrepreneurship: some considerations
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this work it is presented some considerations about entrepreneurship. Most of these questions are linked with …
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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador
José Luis, Massón-Guerra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...
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Entrepreneurial Morality: Some Indications from Greece
Bitros, George C.; Karayiannis, Anastassios D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In countries with relatively small firms, entrepreneurial morality is determined by the influences that shape the values, the personality and the character of entrepreneurs as owners and managers of their enterprises. To shed some light on the processes involved we estimate an ordered probit...
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