Despite their worldwide adoption by policy makers as the Holy Grail for entrepreneurship and business development, the effectiveness of business incubation programs remain elusive, primarily plagued by untenable evaluation methods. This paper develops an in-depth analysis on those methodological...

Business incubators are one of the state means intended to support small and medium-sized businesses. Business incubators supply beginner enterprisers with assistance and information necessary for initiating new businesses. The year of 1998 is considered to be the beginning of business...

?Innovationslogik und regionales Wirtschaftswachstum ? Theorie und Empirie autopoietischer Innovationsdynamik? Obwohl neuere wachstumstheoretische Ans?tze durchg?ngig die Bedeutung von Innovationen f?r wirtschaftliche Entwicklung betonen und sich dabei in selten zu findender Eintracht auf die...

This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property. We will develop the theory of land markets and locational choice. The material covered includes studies of changing...

We define and investigate classes of statistical models for the analysis of associations between variables, some of which are qualitative and some quantitative. In the cases where only one kind of variables is present, the models are well-known models for either contingency tables or covariance...

A mixture model incorporating long-term survivors has been adopted in the field of biostatistics where some individuals may never experience the failure event under study. The surviving fractions may be considered as cured. In most applications, the survival times are assumed to be independent....

Two recent examples of data from statistical consulting work form the basis of this paper. Both data sets arose from situations where temporal decay was expected, and different models for this are discussed, in particular, variants on simple exponential decay: hyperexponential (or mixed...