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focused on micro-entrepreneurship in the Cape Flats area of the Western Cape, specifically on survivalist micro …
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This study investigates the impacts of regional characteristics on the early-stage performance of New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) in catch-up regions where a mature industrial cluster has yet to be formed. It hypothesized that the average NTBF performance in a region is a function of its...
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In form of a qualitative single case study this thesis examines what people from industrialized countries such as Germany can learn about sustainability from Lynedoch EcoVillage, South Africa, and the associated 'Sustainability Institute', a non-profit trust based at and operating from Lynedoch...
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Applying a grounded-theory approach to analyzing the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, we attempt to explain … why New Zealand exhibits only a moderate level of economic development despite its high level of entrepreneurship. By … curvilinear relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development, we develop a better understanding of the …
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The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent … entrepreneurship rates for 45 countries over the 2000-2004 period as well as variables from standardised national statistics. The paper …
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This study focuses on academic entrepreneurship. It commences with a literature reviewon international trends in … academic entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on incentiveschemes used by selected countries to encourage innovativeness … entrepreneurship is linked to the South Africanscenario, as presented in the chapter on the science and technology landscape in …
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ofcorporate entrepreneurship (CE), but the implementation and management of CEremains problematic. Despite heightened awareness … and interest by both scholarsand practitioners in studying and better understanding entrepreneurship within … influencing the level of entrepreneurship in enterprises are the type ofindustry, size and age of a company, managerial influence …
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acquisition and management skills are barriers to entrepreneurship. The only factor that is contrary to the perception is the …
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By international standards South Africa's unemployment rate and poverty levels are extremely high. Currently the unemployment rate is approximately 30% (Business Day, 28 March 2002) or in the region of 40% if those who are not actively seeking work are included. Owing to the high unemployment...
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The scope and extent of home-based businesses and the determination of the method by which the greater portion of household income is generated, in poor neighbourhoods, is the crux ofthis study.The study was undertaken among the 2245 households in the Kleinvlei sub-economic housing area located...
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