direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key institutions are explored more closely: property rights protection, savings … policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they … entrepreneurship to the institutional setup it is maintained that in-depth analyses of specific institutions are required in order to …

Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or … reveals the bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and institutions. Core features of the entrepreneur force us to … view its effects on institutions as more than mechanic general equilibrium adjustments. Three analytically separate …

institutions that foster the emergence of competence blocs and the creation of HGFs. In particular, our analysis points to the …. Finally, we characterize institutions beneficial for sclerotic or dynamic capitalism, respectively, depending on whether they …

classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel … development of nations. What's more, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions - entrepreneurs often shape … institutions themselves. Entrepreneurship abiding by existing institutions is occasionally disruptive enough to challenge the …

Innovation, in all its forms, has become a central activity in companies. Moreover, innovation is considered as the … engine of growth in several countries. The main objective of this paper is to study the determinants of innovation (product … and process) in firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region via concentrating on the impact of financial and …

); * innovation potential, including R&D, information and communication technologies, and institutional environment; * openness and … capacity; * business climate, political institutions, and other institutional indicators (econometric analysis). 4. A test …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national …' for higher education institutions, or in other words provide them with appropriate resources and regulatory environments … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are among the world's top emitters of CO2 and SO2 in per capita terms … improvements in the democratic development of the MENA countries help to mitigate environmental problems. Our results clearly show …, that the quality of democratic institutions has a greater in uence on local environmental problems than on global …

examines it in the context of FDI flows to the Middle East and Northern Africa region (MENA).Using panel data on 11 MENA … positive influence of improvement in the risk of investment expropriationin non-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) MENA countries … BITs is positive in specifications containing investment expropriation risk and government stability in non-GCC MENA …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a …This paper deals with flows of technology and information among people and institutions and the role of public support … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …