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Facilitating youth entrepreneurship.
Haftendorn, Klaus; Salzano, Carmela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
-employment and entrepreneurship as career options for young people entering the labour market. Provides examples of programmes in … integrating entrepreneurship education into the classroom. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965695
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Facilitating youth entrepreneurship.
Haftendorn, Klaus; Salzano, Carmela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Comprises short descriptions of 166 current and recently completed programmes for entrepreneurship education. Covers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966040
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The New Alternative Women’s Entrepreneurship Education: e-Learning and Virtual Universities
Markovic, Mirjana Radovic; Nelson-Porter, Brenda; … - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2009), pp. 1-12
Having in mind that due to fast changes in techniques and technology especially in the last decade of 20th century, new kinds of business and jobs emerged, the need for new knowledge became very clear. Accordingly, everywhere in the world the existing education system is being redefined, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969188
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Business Literacy and Development: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico
Calderón, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851364
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L’entreprise innovante, un symbole pour son créateur
Bonnet, Jean; Brau, Thomas - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2012
entrepreneurship. To fill the gap this article shows that the symbol exists and discloses a form of control of the environment that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854395
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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856410
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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884143
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884241
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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
imposes a 'tax' on entrepreneurship by channelling entrepreneurial talent into lobbying and bribery; by reinforcing male and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884305