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A "ruggedised" method for measuring entrepreneurial activity in developing countries

Frederick, Howard - 2010

In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of …

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Finding and filling the gaps in the Australian governments' innovation and entrepreneurship support spectra

Yencken, John; Hindle, Kevin - 2005

thinking about entrepreneurship as the commercialisation component of Australia’s innovation system. The paper explores the … gaps in the support available for the entrepreneurship phase involving the act of new entry. This gap is covered by … servants and politicians about the nature and operation of entrepreneurship. …

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Entrepreneurship and economic growth : why is New Zealand an outlier? A preliminary analysis

Frederick, Howard - 2005

The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … years running, New Zealand has had the developed world’s highest rate of “Total Entry-Level Entrepreneurial Activity” (Acs … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent …

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A Comparison of Threshold Cointegration and Markov-Switching Vector Error Correction Models in Price Transmission Analysis

Ihle, Rico; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2008

models which is followed by a comprehensive comparison. We find that the assumptions regarding the nature of their regime … techniques do not reproduce the true parameters and are not robust against nuisance parameters. The comparison is supplemented by …

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Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis

Volcker, Paul A. - 2009

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

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Entrepreneurship education and development as an integral part of the enterprise system in Saudi Arabia

Almahdi, HK; Dickson, K - 2010

, there is intense interestfrom policy makers and academicians towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education ….Many economists and politicians agree that entrepreneurship stimulates the generation of employmentopportunities and wealth creation … Institutions (HEIs) in entrepreneurship educationand development in the context of Saudi Arabian economy. In doing so, the authors …

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Policy environments and institutional factors that shape the role of technology in entrepreneurial culture: an exploratory study in Mexico and Canada

Arechavala Vargas, Ricardo; Holbrook, J. Adam; Díaz … - 2008

Entrepreneurship is, by necessity, a function of opportunities and constraints that a given environment presents … we present a comparative study of entrepreneurship in Mexico and Canada, based on the study of the role of technology and …

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Livelihood Disruption and Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship as Technology Adoption, A Case of Tobacco Farmer in Kentucky

Khantachavana, Sivalai V.; Just, David R.; … - 2010

Entrepreneurship means making discrete changes in livelihood activities that involve substantial risks to income. While … the rewards may be substantial, transactions costs may make decisions irreversible. This paper draws a comparison between … entrepreneurship and technology adoption. Adopting a new production technology also involves substantial risks. The economics of …

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Encouraging high expectation entrepreneurship : the implications of Australian policy practices

Yencken, John; O'Connor, Allan; Hindle, Kevin - 2006

Recent studies have shown the important roles that new high growth firms can play in job creation and economic development. This paper reviews the positioning of present Australian government policies and programs that intend to be supportive of the development of more high growth businesses;...

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Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective

Hindle, Kevin; Noble, Jock; Phillips, Brian - 1999

This study investigated selected work-performance data of a large call centre using the entrepreneurial business planning paradigm as a theoretical framework and tested the hypothesis that levels of productivity would be different for each group between workers with a disability and workers...

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