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The New Alternative Women’s Entrepreneurship Education: e-Learning and Virtual Universities

Markovic, Mirjana Radovic; Nelson-Porter, Brenda; … - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2009), pp. 1-12

Having in mind that due to fast changes in techniques and technology especially in the last decade of 20th century, new kinds of business and jobs emerged, the need for new knowledge became very clear. Accordingly, everywhere in the world the existing education system is being redefined, and...

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APPLYING A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE INFLUENCE OF METACOGNITIVE DIMENSIONS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS

URBAN, BORIS - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 20 (2012) 02, pp. 203-225

This paper contributes to research on metacognitions which focuses on cognitive processes that enable entrepreneurs to create new ventures and to think beyond existing knowledge structures to become adaptable in an entrepreneurial context. Two streams of research, entrepreneurial intentions and...

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Local Systems’ Strategies Copying with Globalization: Collective Local Entrepreneurship

Covi, Giovanni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

this gap introducing the concept of ‘Collective Local Entrepreneurship’, a reference point, a device to whom anchor the …

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Acs, Zoltan J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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A new look at the Austrian School of Economics: review and prospects

Yu, Fu-Lai Tony; Shiu, Gary Moon-Cheung - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 145-161

methodological subjectivism and interpretative economics; entrepreneurship, knowledge and coordination problems in the market process …

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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

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A human agency approach to the economics of international trade

Yu, Fu-Lai Tony - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 1 (2009) 1/2, pp. 22-36

Scholars in Austrian economics have amply criticised many aspects of neoclassical economics including methodology, development economics, monetary theory, public finance and comparative economic systems. Surprisingly, little has been said on the pure theory of international trade. This paper...

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Entrepreneurship, e-finance and mobile banking

Ratten, Vanessa - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 6 (2012) 1, pp. 1-12

This paper focuses on the role of entrepreneurship and e-finance in determining a person's intention to adopt mobile …

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SMEs’ Absorptive Capacities and Large Firms’ Knowledge Spillovers: Micro Evidence from the Machining Industry in Mexico

Fuentes, Claudia de; Dutrénit, Gabriela - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 5 (2013) 1, pp. 1-30

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between large firms’ knowledge spillovers and small and medium enterprises’ absorptive capacities. We build ad hoc indicators for these two concepts following a factor analysis methodology, and carry out a structural equations analysis to...

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Exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities: the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth

Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005

entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for knowledge flows and economic growth. The empirical results indicate that an increase in … innovative start-up activity is more effective than an increase in general entrepreneurship for economic growth. …

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