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influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries … and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated to … industries. The impact of start-ups in innovative manufacturing industries on overall regional employment growth is, however, not …
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Previous studies demonstrate that policy makers and practitioners should target support tailored to special needs of novice and habitual entrepreneurs. This paper aims to present a study of the role of prior business experience in the inclination to use external business support and the choice...
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persistently lower wages and higher unemployment rates in eastern compared with western Germany. …This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy …
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companies and startups increases their agility by using agile methods. The logistics industry in particular is known to be a … study conducted is to assess how traditional logistics companies and logistics startups use agile methods in their IT … startups: a) The selection of agile methods and practices, b) the benefits that these methods and practices offer and c) the …
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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …
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Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...
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Although rural entrepreneurship is an emergent field of study and has emerged as one of the most noticeable ways to promote rural development, the few studies concerning the theme are still incipient. Moreover, a lot of studies focus on farmers and rural entrepreneurs as a whole and little...
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RnD personnel in employment, share RnD expenditures in gross regional product, etc.) may be a significant factor because …
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European business sector pays more increasing attention ever to competences, such as the sense of initiative and Service related skills. Social, Personal, and Organizational Competences are becoming competitive factors in the service economy, even though these competences are mainly being...
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The goal of this paper is to reveal typical non-financial success measures in small family business in Croatia. Socioemotional wealth model is used as a basis for questionnaire construction. Questionnaire items represent family typical success measures and are adaptable to different business...
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