entrepreneurship

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.

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.