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Improving the Performance of Ethiopian Universities in Science and Technology : A Policy Note
Salmi, Jamil - 2017
The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has demonstrated commitment to expand higher education science and technology (S and T) programs to spur and support its growth and transformation agenda. Ethiopia has made a tremendous advance in access to higher education over the past decade. This rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943112
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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis
Poschke, Markus - 2013
Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221558
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European universities during the crisis : a public policy perspective, with a brief excursion to the US
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333041
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Sources of Knowledge Used by Entrepreneurial Firms in the European High-Tech Sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055295
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment
Acs, Zoltan J. - 2014
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709252
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Sources of knowledge used by entrepreneurial firms in the European high-tech sector
Amoroso, Sara; Audretsch, David B.; Link, Albert N. - 2017
/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989271
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Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and the Impact of Human Capital
Madsen, Henning; Neergaard, Helle; Ulhøi, John P. - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to address selected aspects of human capital in association with the entrepreneurial process in technology-based new ventures. Until recently, research investigating the founding of new businesses has mainly focused on the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223842
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On the Sources of Entrepreneurial Talent in Italy : Tacit vs. Codified Knowledge
Federici, Daniela; Ferrante, Francesco; Vistocco, Domenico - 2007
codified knowledge determine the returns on different occupational choices in different environments. The data are drawn from … privileged access to tacit knowledge, thus confirming previous analyses on the role of social learning (e.g. Guiso and Schivardi …, 2005). On the other hand, we show that the returns on codified knowledge in entrepreneurial activities increase in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225266
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Financial literacy and new business entry
Skica, Tomasz; Mikuš, Juraj; Holienka, Marian - In: Financial internet quarterly 18 (2022) 2, pp. 42-66
The issue of the relationship between financial literacy and entrepreneurship is still not a fully explored research area. On the one hand, there are common views that financial literacy and education in finance are necessary in every individual's life, and that an insufficient level of finan-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368193
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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