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In search of ethnic entrepreneurship opportunities in the city : a comparative policy study

Delft, Hadewijch van; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

initiatives based on self-reliance principles for ethnic groups. Against this background ethnic entrepreneurship has become a … emphasis on ethnic entrepreneurship seeks to exploit the economic potential and opportunities instead of focusing on the … problems minorities encounter when entering the labour market. In ethnic entrepreneurship, this potential can be utilised in a …

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Migrant entrepreneurship and new urban economic opportunities

Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha; Baycan Levent, Tüzin - 2009

systematically assess the conditions for successful entrepreneurship of migrants. …

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Embeddedness of entrepreneurs in rural areas : a comparative rough set data analysis

Akgün, Aliye Ahu; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan Levent, Tüzin; … - 2009

This study aims to identify the critical factor(s) that determine the embeddedness level (EL) of rural entrepreneurs. In order to achieve this aim, existing applied studies on the embeddedness of entrepreneurs undertaken in different rural areas were systematically collected to create a database...

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Entrepreneurial migration and regional opportunities in developing countries

Ndoen, Marthen L.; Gorter, Cees; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2000

This paper aims to investigate the entrepreneurial migrants’ preferences for a location for businessactivities in developing countries. In the modelling framework six socio-economic and six socio-cultural variables are used in this study to investigate the migrants’ propensity to stay at...

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New entrepreneurship in urban diasporas in our modern world

Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, Eveline S. van - In: Journal of urban management 2 (2013) 1, pp. 25-47

Entrepreneurship among migrants - often called new, migrant or ethnic entrepreneurship - has over the past years become … a significant component of the urban economy in many developed countries. Migrant entrepreneurship has a considerable … international connectivity. The present paper aims to investigate the backgrounds of migrant entrepreneurship in large Dutch cities …

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