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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.
D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966369
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The European Cohesion policy and the promotion of entrepreneurship. The case of Andalusia
Romero, Isidoro; Fernández-Serrano, José - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 29, pp. 215-236
This paper discusses the significance, trends and achievements of the entrepreneurship and small and medium … entrepreneurial culture and business environment conditions unfavourable to entrepreneurship have traditionally acted as structural … obstacles to regional development in Andalusia. In order to face this problem, the role of the entrepreneurship policy within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992186
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Entrepreneurial activity and regional development: an introduction to this special issue
Guerrero, Maribel; Peña-Legazkue, Peña-Legazkue , Iñaki - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 05-15
have analyzed the complicated endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, but these studies have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992312
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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess spin-offs from a university-based technology transfer network. We first detect the regional objectives, inputs and outputs needed to assess spin-offs from support programmes. We then provide evidence on regional mechanisms for firm creation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849637
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Assessing Technology-based Spin-offs from University Support Units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess the efficiency of technology-based spin-offs that benefited from financial and infrastructure aid. It does so by following the objectives of institutions for regional support and provides evidence on spin-offs created within the special case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851399
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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881194
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883091
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913549
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Nuevas empresas e instituciones de apoyo: el caso de la promocion empresarial en los ambitos rurales y urbanos de Cataluna
Urbano, David; Vaillant, Yancy; Toledano, Nuria - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2007) 214
administrations to achieve these objectives. This study uses the institutional theory to analyse the entrepreneurship support measures … entrepreneurship support programmes and measures in the Garrotxa, a rural country, and the Valles Occidental, an urban county of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010921673