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Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … needed in Africa's rural areas. …
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Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … needed in Africa's rural areas …
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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … failed in Africa …
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chains. We assess the impact of a large-scale energy-access intervention in Kenya that supports individuals in starting a …
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This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people's unemployment in Africa through …
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Start-up collaboration units (SCUs) are organizational units specifically created by large companies to facilitate collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation ecosystems (CIEs). The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of SCUs with reference to the transfer of...
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Model on questionnaire results from 2,812 early-stage entrepreneurs in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and South … Africa, I find substantial evidence of a negative effect of having a female primary founder on the probability of being … provides policy recommendations for encouraging female entrepreneurship in Africa, which has been shown to contribute to long …
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This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) that was launched in 2024. These flaws limit the usefulness of the AEEI. Moreover, given that the both the notions of entrepreneurial ecosystems and composite indices...
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India’s premier development cooperation scheme in Africa, the Indian Development and Economic Assistance Cooperation … rise of small, inexperienced and often start-up infrastructure companies who came to dominate Indian LoCs in Africa. They … initiators of the LoCs. While increasing the options, and lowering infrastructure costs, for governments in Africa, these …
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Little is currently known about the effects of skill composition on academic entrepreneurship. Therefore, in this paper, following Lazear’s (2005) jack-of-all-trades approach, we study how the composition of a scientist’s skills affects his or her intention to become an entrepreneur....
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