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Mobile phone innovation and doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2022
This study assesses how knowledge diffusion modulates the effect of the mobile phone on entrepreneurship or doing … of entrepreneurship are used. The following three main findings are established. First, the net effects from interacting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549271
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Mobile Phone Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2017
This study assesses how knowledge diffusion modulates the effect of the mobile phone on entrepreneurship in Sub … scientific output. Ten variables of entrepreneurship are used. The following three main findings are established. First, the net … entrepreneurship. Suggestions on how to boost these knowledge diffusion channels are discussed. Other practical and theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784881
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Mobile phones, Institutional Quality and Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596380
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Business dynamics, knowledge economy, and the economic performance of African countries
Asongu, Simplice; Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S.; Andrés, … - 2019
This paper develops a framework (a) to examine whether or not the African business e nvironment hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE affects econom ic performance, and (c) how economic performance relates to the inequality-adjusted human socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112153
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The impact of entrepreneurship on knowledge economy in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
Purpose - The paper assesses how entrepreneurship affects knowledge economy (KE) in Africa. Design …/methodology/approach - Entrepreneurship is measured by indicators of starting, doing and ending business. The four dimensions of the World Bank's index of KE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480744
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The role of mobile phones in governance-driven technology exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Asongu, Ndemaze - 2017
This study assesses how the mobile phone influences governance to improve information and communication technology (ICT) exports in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments and three main governance concepts are used, namely:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784894
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Mobile Phone Innovation and Technology-driven Exports in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice - 2017
The study investigates how education, scientific output and the internet complement mobile phone penetration to affect technology commodity exports in Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The following main findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784900
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A synthetic indicator of the quality of support for businesses in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana
Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice; Meh, Bin Joachem; … - 2022
This paper proposes a synthetic indicator of the quality of support for companies as well as identifies the factors that can contribute towards improving the quality of such support in three countries (i.e., Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana). The approach used to construct this synthetic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278162
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Duration of support and financial health of business support structures in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana: A micro-econometric analysis
Kouam, Jean C.; Asongu, Simplice; Meh, Bin Joachem; … - 2022
Access to finance is perceived as one of the major problems facing businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the structures that support them in their development. This paper aims to measure the probability that a support structure with given characteristics, specific services to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278580
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Economic Implications of Business Dynamics for KE-Associated Economic Growth and Inclusive Development in African Countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Amavilah, Voxi; Andrés, Antonio - 2014
This paper develops an empirically-relevant framework (a) to examine whether or not the African business environment hinders or promotes the knowledge economy (KE), (b) to determine how the KE which emerges from such an environment affects economic growth, and (c) how growth in turn relates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390879