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Health information technology: will it make higher quality and more efficient healthcare delivery possible?
Shen, Jay J. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 2 (2007) 3/4, pp. 281-297
Holding a new promise for improving efficiency and quality and reducing cost, Health Information Technology (HIT) has become the latest national priority. Selecting three evidence-based national quality indicator systems/models as examples, this paper examines relationships between quality of...
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Davis, Susan - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 2, pp. 3-10
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The role of technology transfer offices in growing new entrepreneurial ecosystems around mid-sized universities
Sadek, Tarek; Kleiman, Rafael; Loutfy, Rafik - In: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 6 (2015) 1, pp. 61-79
different bottom-up initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, and in attracting and integrating new external resources to the …
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UNDERSTANDING SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGY: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY ON SMALL FIRMS IN THE E.U. STATE OF MALTA
RIZZO, ALEXANDER; FULFORD, HEATHER - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 20 (2012) 03, pp. 287-332
The common argument for the small business is that there simply is no strategy; that small businesses react heuristically to events, guided by the whims and passions of the owner-manager. Strategy, however, can be looked at from a behavioural perspective, as opposed to the more normative...
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In search of the entrepreneurial profile(s) in Luxembourg
Dimaria, Charles-Henri; Ries, Jean - In: Brussels Economic Review 49 (2006) 1, pp. 37-58
definitions of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship are surveyed and descriptive statistics are computed to define an average profile …
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Les entrepreneurs héroïques de l’économie dunkerquoise (Heroic entrepreneurs of the dunkirk’s economy)
Mudard-Franssen, Nathalie - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2005
entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship differs according to the territories and their history. Our aim is to link the history of the …
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The Green Entrepreneur: Visionary, Maverick or Opportunist?
Taylor, David W.; Walley, Liz E. E. - EconWPA - 2003
typology of green entrepreneurs is proposed, which has been adapted and developed from Thompson's four dimensions of … entrepreneurship (1998). The terms 'ethical maverick', 'ad hoc environpreneur', 'visionary champion' and 'innovative opportunist' are … ways to foster green entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561853
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is It U-Shaped?
Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André; Carree, Martin; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 6 (2010) 3, pp. 167-237
independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development. We argue that the … reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two 'revolutions'. If we distinguish between solo self …-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many …
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TACKLING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR: AN OVERVIEW OF THE POLICY OPTIONS, APPROACHES AND MEASURES
WILLIAMS, COLIN C. - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 20 (2015) 01, pp. 1550006-1
informal entrepreneurship. To do this, it first reviews four possible policy options, namely taking no action, eradicating … informal entrepreneurship, moving formal entrepreneurship into the informal economy, or transforming informal entrepreneurship … into formal entrepreneurship. Revealing that transforming informal entrepreneurship into formal entrepreneurship is not …
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Young innovative companies (YICs) and entrepreneurship policy
Mas-Tur, Alicia; Simón Moya, Virginia - In: Journal of Business Research 68 (2015) 7, pp. 1432-1435
This study examines the features of young innovative companies (YICs) that enable their access to public policies in the form of subsidies. Through this analysis, the study determines the profile of YICs that receive public innovation aid. The study thus establishes whether governments design...
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