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Can street entrepreneurs be Schumpeterian entrepreneurs? The case of food trucks as family firms in an emerging country
Matzembacher, Daniele Eckert; Leite Gonzales, Rogério; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-24
characterize entrepreneurship, its motivations, knowledge and capacity for innovation. A participant observation was carried out … Schumpeterian condition. This paper advances in theoretical knowledge by identifying that the Schumpeterian innovation of this … in places in which knowledge is disseminated as innovation. …
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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320349
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The Philippine National Innovation System: Structure and Characteristics
Patalinghug, Epictetus - 2003
Industrial development requires technological capability in industry. National innovation system is anchored on the … critical at the firm level. This paper describes the structure and characteristics of the Philippine national innovation system …, and compares it with the American, Japanese, and German national systems of innovation. It concludes that the Philippine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429700
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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011
This paper reviews the innovative capabilities and absorptive capacities of African countries, and investigates whether they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280171
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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
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The effect of personal financing disruptions on entrepreneurship
Hanspal, Tobin - 2016
I show that disruptions to personal sources of financing, aside from commercial lending supply shocks, impair the survival and growth of small businesses. Entrepreneurs holding deposit accounts at retail banking institutions that defaulted following the financial crisis reduce personal borrowing...
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The role of networks in technological capability: A technology-based companies perspective
Tumelero, Cleonir; Sbragia, Roberto; Borini, Felipe Mendes - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 8 (2018) 7, pp. 1-19
demonstrates that the innovation ecosystem presents advancements in the well-known challenge of financial support for technology …'s innovation capability. Results demonstrate that this change in planning focus, from inside to outside of the company, could …
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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Entrepreneurship and Cities: Evidence from the Post-communist World
Belitski, Maksim; Korosteleva, Julia - 2011
This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States during 1995-2008, utilising a unique dataset and employing the System Generalised Method of Moments technique. Our findings suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship,...
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Effects of subsidizing the firstemployee - Empirical evidence from Finland
Nivala, Annika - 2019
This paper studies the effects of a first employee wage subsidy imple-mented in parts of Finland in 2007â 2011 using the universe of Finnishfirms. The subsidy, amounting to 30% of the wage costs of the firstemployee in the first year and 15% in the second, was targeted to en-trepreneurs without...
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