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Recent studies have shown the important roles that new high growth firms can play in job creation and economic development. This paper reviews the positioning of present Australian government policies and programs that intend to be supportive of the development of more high growth businesses;...
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that innovation results from the blending of two processes, invention and entrepreneurship, and that viable innovation …The paper argues that innovation is the combination of an inventive process and an entrepreneurial process to create … concentrated on summarising the entrepreneurial process and its importance to innovation policy and avoids any detailed elaboration …
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Principal topic: Effectuation theory suggests that entrepreneurs develop their new ventures in an iterative way by … already within the firm may be a constraint that is not conducive to innovation, or at least not to a radical innovation …. While it has been suggested that effectuation strategy is more likely to be used by innovative entrepreneurs (Sarasvathy …
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In this study financial advisers’ relative influence on entrepreneurs’ decisions have been investigated. Financial … advisers are advisers, included in entrepreneurs’ discussion networks, with whom entrepreneurs discuss financial issues. The … participation in Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), it was found that financial advisers only play a minor role in the two early …
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In July 2009, a team of 38 researchers carried out the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey in the Kingdom of …
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The literature indicates that entrepreneurship and economic growth are closely and positively associated. For four … if it were to emulate other countries. We make use of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data set, including nascent … entrepreneurship rates for 45 countries over the 2000-2004 period as well as variables from standardised national statistics. The paper …
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while … having limited resources to conduct patent examinations. The patent examination process is too long and the quality of issued … patent. In these prediction markets, traders buy and sell bets for the outcomes of patent examinations. Our proposed …
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entrepreneurial enterprises and the relevance of Collin’s research to the development of the appropriate skills for entrepreneurs. It …
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study of a group of micro entrepreneurs in Mozambique from an entrepreneurship perspective rather than a development one …. The purpose of this paper is to document the activities of a group of micro-entrepreneurs in Beira, in Central Mozambique … their potential for long term success. The first series of interviews with the entrepreneurs at their place of work has been …
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This paper presents a conceptual model of the work effort decision of individuals and thereby advances our understanding of workaholism and other patterns of high or low work involvement and high or low work enjoyment. Researchers have categorized eight main types of work behaviors using the...
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