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We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …
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performance of rural local governments in Poland over the periods 2003-2005 and 2006-2008. Rural governments face particular …
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Inadequacy of Information Technology (IT) enabled solutions has constrained the implementation of accrual accounting in Greek municipalities as part of a New Public Management (NPM) initiative. In this paper we analyse the main reasons behind the failure of IT to support the accounting reform...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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2006-2020, to capture the relationship between new business density rate, as a proxy for entrepreneurship, and individuals … entrepreneurship is influenced by the skills, knowledge, and experience of the entrepreneurs, including their education, training, and …. When separating the EU countries from the perspective of their Innovation Index performance, the threshold effect was …
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In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and … innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who …
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Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where these entrepreneurs are members of have been identified as one among many critical factors for their firms' success. This paper intents to go one step further and analyses in...
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The dynamics of national innovation systems (NISs) are a source of considerable academic and policy interest … which new biotechnology innovation networks are being created, and contrasting their development with existing networks, we … ‘imitation’ to ‘innovation’. The paper aims to add to the understanding of how innovation systems evolve. It is concerned with …
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In the paper, the change in the innovation level of the Polish economy over the years 2007-2016 will be presented and a … comparison of the innovation level between the Polish economy and those of the EU member states over the years 2010-2016 will be … made. The aim of the paper is to find the answer to the question what the reason of the relatively low innovation level of …
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