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Promoting the financing of SMEs and start-ups in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2014

The Korean government has made fostering a “creative economy” a top priority. The goal is to shift Korea's economic paradigm to one based on innovation in which new start-ups and venture businesses play a key role. However, the venture capital market is still at an early stage of...

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Fostering a creative economy to drive Korean growth

Jones, Randall Sidney; Kim, Myungkyoo - 2014

A creative economy requires innovation-friendly conditions. Korea’s innovation system should be improved by upgrading universities and expanding their role in business R&D, while increasing international collaboration in R&D from its current low level. The returns from Korea’s large...

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Enhancing dynamism in SMEs and entrepreneurship in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Lee, Jae Wan - 2018

. Upgrading entrepreneurship education and lowering the personal costs faced by entrepreneurs who fail would be beneficial. A …

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From bricks to brains : increasing the contribution of knowledge-based capital to growth in Ireland

Haugh, David - 2013

With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...

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Fostering innovative business investment in Spain

Haugh, David; McGowan, Muge Adalet; Andrews, Dan; … - 2017

Spain has chronically low productivity growth, which undermines its ability to generate higher living standards. Important contributors to low productivity growth are the misallocation of capital to low productivity firms and under-investment in knowledge-based capital. To foster a better...

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Financial inclusion and women entrepreneurship : evidence from Mexico

Fareed, Fozan; Gabriel, Mabel; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2017

financial inclusion is positively linked with entrepreneurship and it can open up economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs … entrepreneurs working in the informal sector or women working in the commerce sector, highlighting lower entry barriers, including … entrepreneurs in the formal sector and 63% more likely to be entrepreneurs in the informal sector, as compared to men, after taking …

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