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The Influence of Business Simulation on Students’ Entrepreneurship
Cãtãlin, Ploae - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 3, pp. 57-64
Business simulations games in education are a valuable asset, as well as their potential benefits are unquestionable. In industry, sophisticated simulators are used to train operators where a mistake on a complicated process could have very expensive or disastrous consequences. This is...
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies
Acs, Zoltan; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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