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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...
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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...
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In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years …, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national … innovation economy. The principal difference last year was that, first, the innovation vector of development (at least at the …
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The scientific sphere saw continuation of the measures initiated between 2009 and 2010. The Russian research complex displayed certain positive shifts, though they fell short of being of magnitude sufficient to be mirrored by statistics. There also were alarm bells: specifically, against the...
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Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself …, and encouragement of the latter's innovation activities. The focus shifted onto huge projects, with Skolkovo being atop …
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Erasmus projects funded by the European Union. The project is based on the approach of innovation pedagogy that responds to …
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The past year was marked by the alteration of former trends and priorities following the change of the President and the Government. State policies for supporting science came to the fore while the encouragement of innovative activities and technological development lost in the frequency of its...
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The past year marked the start of drawing up new integrated technological development plans for the Russian science and technology. The plans were originally presented by an Executive Order of the Russian President and then evolved into a nationwide project called “The ‘Science' National...
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sustainable knowledge-based living and working environment in Portugal. Most initiatives under the Digital Cities and Regions … technologies (ICTs) by public administrations across the EU. Portugal has been strategically involved in a catching-up process with … high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the …
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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 …
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