entrepreneurship
Innovation, Appropriation and Entrepreneurial Strategy
The author analyses the strategy of an entrepreneur seeking to earn a return on a new discovery when faced by an incumbent firm and pool of potential entrants. Findings indicate that it is the magnitude of the discovery and its susceptibility to appropriation, rather than entry costs, that are the main determinants of whether entry will occur.
Mental Map of Dutch Entrepreneurs: Changes in the Subjective Rating of Locations in the Netherlands, 1983-1993-2003
On the basis of the three projects a true comparison can now be made of the mental maps of Dutch entrepreneurs in the years 1983, 1993, and 2003. This paper describes and analyses the three mental maps.
Entrepreneurship, Geography and Technological Change
The authors argue that variations across countries in entrepreneurship and the spatial structure of economic activities could potentially be the source of different efficiencies in knowledge spillovers and ultimately in economic growth. They use the 2001 GEM cross-country data to measure the level of entrepreneurship in each particular economy.
SMEs, The Engine of Local Entrepreneurship, in the Framework of New Basel Capital Accord: Perspectives-Opportunities and Obstacles for Their Reinforcement by the Banking System
In the first part of the paper the author analyzes the important role of SMEs as the most crucial factor for the development of the local entrepreneurship. The second part refers to the Structure of the New Accord Three Pillars, focussing on the Basel II Capital Adequacy framework and specifically on the first pillar.
Entrepreneurial Culture, Regional Innovativeness and Economic Growth
This paper presents the results of an empirical study on the relationship between entrepreneurial culture, regional rates of innovation and regional economic growth. Recent literature mainly in regional science and economic geography has emphasized the role of an entrepreneurial culture in explaining the economic success of regions.
Territory and Entrepreneurial Performance An Exercise on Some Industrial Portuguese Regions
The present paper was motivated by the recent interest put on the regional context as having a major role tracing economic agents behaviours and inducing productive activity. Three main goals have been defined: to emphasise the relation between favourable regional factors for development and firm performance in the case of the most industrialised Portuguese regions; to distinguish in each region its own propensity for sustainable development and to evaluate if the region may be considered as intrinsic co-operative or resistant to co-operation.
Enterpreneurship and Innovation Activites in the Schumpeterian Lines
This paper attempts to examine the role of entrepreneurship, and those of innovation activities (technical change, research and development and diffusion of technology) and the effects of output growth, according to the Schumpeterian lines.
Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Andalusian University Students
The objective of this paper is to know the attitudes of the Andalusian university students towards entrepreneurial activity and the creation of enterprises. Those students are especially relevant, since they belong to that strategic segment of higher entrepreneurial potential individuals.
Pursuit of Competitive Advantages for Entrepreneurship: Development of Enterprise as a Learning Organization. International and Russian Experience
The present article is dedicated to the consideration of the reasons and directions of conceptual changes in the business activity realization; to the problems of the devel-opment of business enterprise as learning organization and creation of the corporate universities; to the experience and tendencies of the concentration and realization of in-tellectual capital.
Creating an Economy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Greater Lehigh Valley
This series of four symposia identified that the Greater Lehigh Valley and regions like it face a serious challenge as they seek to thrive in the 21st Century. The report offers recommendations to gain practical, actionable understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship in today’s commoditized global economy.