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these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …
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This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.
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In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …
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Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and...
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China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …. Our results show that a high rate of entrepreneurship increases the chances that knowledge turns into innovative products …
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