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Policies for rural areas have become an important but complex policy field in the EuropeanUnion`s Common Agricultural Policy. The purpose of this paper is to report on amethodological approach pursued to model the allocation of EAFRD (European AgriculturalFund for Rural Development) funds in...
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Since the late 1980s slogans like ‘use it or lose it’ or ‘conservation through sustainable use’ emphasized the economic use of wildlife for conservation and rural development. In addition, a stronger involvement of local communities instead of displacement and curtailing of their access...
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Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been an important policy tool within the EU for over 15 years and are viewed as a central element of the Rural Development Regulation (RDR) in seeking to secure certain environmental public goods. Currently, AES tend to be action-based rather than...
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We review the role entrepreneurship capital in regional economic performance and extend it to explain the economic and entrepreneurial performance of organizations, teams, and individuals. Drawing on entrepreneurship and social capital research, we demonstrate that researchers at different level...
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In his comprehensive critique of current economic approaches to social capital, Durlauf(2002) recommends a stronger reliance on methods of experimental economics and socialpsychology. This paper surveys different notions of social capital and submits an alternativeconceptual approach based on...
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The purpose of this inductive theory-building paper is to address the following research question: How does the role of social capital in fostering the international growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) evolve over time? It does so by theorizing from a three-year longitudinal study of...
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ICTs radically open up new ways in which to address the basic challenges of regional development in the knowledge-based society. The transformative potential of ICTs resides, in particular, in the way they enable networking, learning and innovation, and empowerment. A horizontal theme that runs...
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Modelling infrastructure as an international public good in a two-country modelof trade where each country’s social planner behaves strategically, we showthat the equilibrium levels of infrastructure are sub-optimal from a globalperspective...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie kommerzielle Unternehmen die Innovationskraft von Open Source Projekten nutzen können.Als Beispiele werden Red Hat und Netscape behandelt.
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Open source software production is a highly successful innovation model. But it is, by far, not a singular case but rather one example of "virtual communities of innovation". The purpose of this paper is to inquire under which conditions the new innovation model might work in general...
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