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Building rural community resilience through innovation and entrepreneurship

French, Charlie (ed.) - 2022

"Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come about as a result of new forms of...

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Networks and rural-urban linkages for rural innovation

Marshalian, Michelle - 2023

This working paper examines the role of networks and rural-urban linkages to absorb and enhance innovation in rural regions, placing a special focus on the distinctive characteristics of rural areas that drive the different ways they adopt and diffuse innovation. After a review of the literature...

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Understanding international migrations in rural areas : new processes of social innovation and rural regeneration in Southern Italy

Urso, Karen - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 76 (2021) 1, pp. 59-75

The current international migration has transformed the morphology, the social structures and the local economies in many rural areas, often helping to reverse a long-term demographic and social decline. Analyzing two experiences of Southern Italy, affected by depopulation and deficit of social...

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Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: From microcredit to microfinance

Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature reviews and descriptive research to present different aspects of the relationship of the microfinancial services to microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from...

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Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship : Case Studies in Social Innovation

Ashta, Arvind - 2015

The paper presents a social innovation as an innovitve business model with new social relations and indicates a few short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance service providers. The cases are from microcredit,...

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Social Innovation Lessons from Microangels? An Institutional Entrepreneurship Case Study of the CIGALES Movement in France

Ashta, Arvind - 2015

One way by which microentrepreneurs can increase their ability to take debt is to take equity alongside, thus respecting prudent ratios and reducing stress. But microequity has not developed in most of the developing world. At the same time, since 1983, microequity has been started in France...

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Getting Financial Inclusion Policies Right in the Digital Era : Focus on Competition and Innovation as Policy Objectives

di Castri, Simone - 2018

The rapid digitization of finance, the fast pace of technology advancement and the rise of data-driven innovation has transformed financial sectors and created opportunities for financial authorities that are pursuing financial inclusion to adapt their regulatory and supervisory approaches....

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Disruptive Innovations or Enhancing Financial Inclusion : What Does Fintech Mean for Africa?

Alade, Isa; Kavame Eroglu, Zehra G. - 2022

Despite the rise of investments in fintech, financial services in Africa remain inaccessible to a large segment of the population, particularly to vulnerable groups including women. However, with uniquely designed fintech products and suitable regulations, there is now a chance to provide...

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Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process : from microcredit to microfinance

Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

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Monopoly behavior of China's manufacturing enterprises : rent-seeking or innovation-oriented

Wang, Guidong - In: China political economy 2 (2019) 1, pp. 157-179

first and then slowly decrease. Generally, no significant "productivity paradox" can be observed in China's manufacturing … decline. This paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Using the 1996-2013 China Industrial Enterprise … corporate monopoly power. Findings Results show that China’s manufacturing monopoly enterprises are generally innovation …

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