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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 … welfare enhancing impact on the city, notably a contribution to innovation and growth, creation of new jobs for less favoured …
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Special issue: Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and economic development
Stough, Roger (contributor); Nijkamp, Peter (contributor) - 2009
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Migrant entrepreneurship from the perspective of cultural diversity
Sahin, Mediha; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan Levent, Tüzin - 2006
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Impact of urban conditions on firm performance of migrant entrepreneurs : a comparative Dutch-US study
Sahin, Mediha; Nijkamp, Peter; Stough, Roger - In: The annals of regional science : an international … 46 (2011) 3, pp. 661-689
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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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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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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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A structural equations model for assessing the economic performance of high-tech ethnic entrepreneurs
Şahín, Medíha; Todiras, Alina; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2013
In this paper we develop and test a conceptual model of the key relationships concerning the business performance and success of ethnic entrepreneurs. To that end, an explanatory modei'GALAXY' is presented which serves as a framework for mapping out the impact that various background factors are...
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