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It is suggested that the recognition of new business opportunities often involves pattern recognition--the cognitive process through which individuals identify meaningful patterns in complex arrays of events or trends. Basic research on pattern recognition indicates that cognitive frameworks...
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of entrepreneurship in Africa. This paper concludes that the dichotomy between push and pull entrepreneurship is …, skills and motivation. But most importantly, entrepreneurship can survive in an environment with many constraints, because …
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of systematic training on entrepreneurship opportunity recognition in China. Moreover, the low percentage of students … is that students in both countries indicate a need for the knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship; and the need for …
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The heart of entrepreneurship is the creation and/or recognition of opportunities. Although there is no universal … definition of entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition has been viewed as the central definition of this phenomenon. Without an … opportunity there is no entrepreneurship. Therefore opportunity recognition is widely seen as a key step of the entrepreneurial …
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The purpose of this special issue is to examine small businesses, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and show that …. From Schumpeter to the present, a stream of literature unites the concept of entrepreneurship with its ability to make new … most characteristic dimension of entrepreneurship is closely linked to small businesses. Small and large companies have …
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entrepreneurship, and provides detailed examination of a case study on a French academic spin-off. …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sources and nature of opportunities used by owner-managers of small and medium size (SMEs) firms in order to grow their businesses. In addition to the owner-manager's desire for growth, clearly there needs to be both opportunities to pursue and...
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Tomando como punto de partida la teoría cognitiva se analiza de una forma holística los componentes psicológicos y sociológicos, y las interacciones que se producen entre ellos, que afectan al proceso de reconocimiento de la oportunidad de negocio tecnológico. La investigación realizada,...
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This conceptual paper examines the issue of integrating CSR at the start-up level with the aim of increasing the firm's ability to identify new opportunities. Both a constraint and an occasion to strengthen the company's legitimacy and competitive advantage, CSR principles and practices are a...
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The aim of this research study is to test an integrative model of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition based on theories of cognition, social capital, environmental development and personality.240 entrepreneurs in the services industry participated in this survey. Multiple regression analysis...
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