entrepreneurship and business start-ups. Throughout a three year period the research has included 1990 examinees. The population is … basics of entrepreneurship and small business, basic finance and accounting and foreign languages. In the opinion of students …

After the introductory presentation of basic concepts related to entrepreneurship and its importance, and the …

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 … imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …

survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship … developed as it applied to a cluster case in China. This study suggests which mechanisms and factors allow a cluster to adapt …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with minimal barriers to entry. Using a cashmere sweater cluster in China … accessible for small entrepreneurs widely available in rural China, even without a well functioning capital market. The observed …

entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting … mechanisms that might explain how the reform increased entrepreneurship. I find evidence that the reform reduced labor mobility …