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Knowledge networks, nodes and new organisational forms

Boden, Rebecca; Nedeva, Maria - 2008

Science has a matrix of research 'space' and 'fields'. Research space is a virtual environment comprising knowledge producers, users, funders and policy makers. Research 'fields' enclose the cognitive architectonic of science and cut across organisational and disciplinary boundaries. Research...

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Building confidence in qualitative research: engaging the demands of policy

Torrance, Harry - 2008

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Qualitative inquiry, published by and copyright Sage.

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Constructing Quality in Academic Science: How Basic Scientists Respond to Canadian Market-Oriented Science Policy – A Bourdieusian Approach

McGuire, Wendy Lynn - 2011

Canadian science policy has increasingly linked the value of academic knowledge to its contribution to economic competitiveness. A market vision of scientific quality is embedded in new funding criteria which encourage academic scientists to collaborate with industry, generate intellectual...

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Knowledge-Based Innovation Systems and the Model of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations

Leydesdorff, Loet - 2001

The (neo-)evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations focuses on the overlay of expectations, communications, and interactions that potentially feed back on the institutional arrangements among the carrying agencies. From this perspective, the evolutionary...

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Destructive leadership in family businesses: Modelling social exchange between generations

Robinson, David; Harvey, Michael G.; Yupitun, Mark - 2009

The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next-generation offspring. In light of previous literature...

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Financing the Celtic Tigress: Venturing Financing and Informal Investment in Ireland

O'Gorman, Colm; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2006

This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of … the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be …

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Could the Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?

Acs, Zoltan J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2007

significant differences in entrepreneurial activity between Ireland and Hungary in both the type of people starting businesses and … Ireland and Hungary (Reynolds, et al 2005). We expect that countries will benefit from FDI spillovers when there is a strong … between Ireland and Hungary in terms of (i) levels of opportunity-based entrepreneurial activity, (ii) the entrepreneurial …

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Foreign Direst Investment and Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Wales and Ireland

Terjesen, Siri A.; Acs, Zoltan - 2007

entrepreneurial activity varies by human capital and cultural context in Ireland and Wales. …

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The Impact of Experience and Consumer Perceptions on Perceived Risk Reduction Behavior - The Case of Beef

McCarthy, Mary - 2005

This research examines perceived risk at the facet level (Psychological, Social, Performance, Safety, Health and Financial) and assesses the influence of consumer experience and perception of self (perceived ability, interest in product and interest in cooking), product (perceived product...

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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001

Irelands relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive …

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