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Chamblee, Georgia: Home Grown Industries and the New Faces of the Entrepreneurs
Wilkins, Joy - 2000
When Kodak and other Fortune 500 companies closed their plants in Chamblee,Georgia, it devastated the small city's economy. Chamblee began a process of"asset-based community development," but fell short of identifying itscompetitive advantage. The 1990 Census, however, revealed a unique asset -...
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2009 Policy Priorities of Women Business Owners
King, Dana - 2009
On April 29, 2009, a town hall meeting of women business owners was held in Atlanta at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Student Center. Hosted and facilitated by the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC), this meeting was the seventh in a series of meetings that began in March 2007....
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2007 Case Study Review of Inventor Assistance Organizations
Wilkins, Joy; Tucker, Phaedra - 2008
entrepreneurship among independent inventors and other individuals in Georgia communities. To further understand how to best serve the …
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Paul D. Reynolds : entrepreneurship research innovator, coordinator, and disseminator
Davidsson, Per - 2005
Paul Davidson Reynolds is the 2004 winner of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research … areas of his contributions: regional variations in entrepreneurial activity, nascent entrepreneurship and firms in gestation … aspects of the research process he has contributed to: development of new empirical methods to research entrepreneurship …
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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam
Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...
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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.
D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa
Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.
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The Role of Development Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Entrerprises in Managing Structural Changes
Beraha, Isidora; Stankovic, Ivana - In: Managing Structural Changes - Trends and Requirements
economic growth and development. Entrepreneurship is associated with job creation, innovation, welfare distribution, poverty … of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic development of Serbia over the 2006-2010 period of time by using the … data. The methodology assesses the development of entrepreneurship through SMEE sector development and new firm formation …
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
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