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A group of 24 small manufacturing firms located in Santiago, Chile, that operate in four different industries was analysed in detail to assess the impact that technology assets (manufacturing equipment, vehicles, computers, etc.) have on the overall productivity of workers and firms. Using a...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the range and particularity of problems of immigrant versus indigenous entrepreneurs and the extent to which entrepreneurs cope with the problems. Data were collected in 2004–2005 by means of a comprehensive questionnaire submitted to 214...
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There remain several unexplored questions in relation to the analysis of regional innovation systems (RISs). This is the case, for example, about the nature of some types of system failures that avoid developing innovations in regional economies. In this case, system failures may hinder the...
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If management in firms of the concrete region focuses on innovation development, the economy of this region will have chances to become the innovation economy. What are the chances in this respect of St. Petersburg in the North-West Russia? In order to answer this question we have investigated...
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Healthcare services are produced jointly by public and private service providers. Simultaneously they are each others' competitors, thus operating in a co-opetition setting. Co-operation enables producing healthcare services efficiently. However, the public service providers have to operate on...
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In October 1910 a revolution drove out the king of Portugal and established the Portuguese Republic. In 1926 a military coup overthrew the parliamentary system and led to the authoritarian regime of Salazar, but in April 1974 a revolution led by the military restored the parliamentary republic....
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entrepreneurship and a different measure ofwealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at theupper tail of the distribution. These estimates are not …
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opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the neteffect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata available … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regressionestimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship.Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability that …
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groups, such as Mexicans; or entrepreneurship among “non-ethnic†groups – groups not readily identified with their … ancestral heritage – such as US-born “whitesâ€. Actually, by definition, ethnic entrepreneurship is limited to ethnic groups … and often to those groups with above-average participation rates. And while ethnic entrepreneurship may be associated with …
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The theoretical concepts about entrepreneurship have changed since the last three decades. It has become one of the … economy (Audretsch and Thurik 2001), it can be seen clearly those shifts which contributed to become entrepreneurship an … continue their economic activity. The entrepreneurship is influenced by those negative and positive factors (for example other …
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