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Multicultural Diversity and Migrant Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Netherlands

Sahin, Mediha; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2006

With the advent of the era of mass migration in Europe, the issue of cultural diversity (CD ) has gained increasing social and political interest. There is a changing and often contradictory relationship between immigration, the increasing CD as a result of migration, and the development of...

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Modelling the Entrepreneurial Space-Economy: an overview

Nijkamp, Peter; Wissen, Leo van - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2004

The aim of this paper is to review recent contributions to the study of entrepreneurship and firm dynamics from a …

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Migrant Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Cultural Diversity

Sahin, Mediha; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2006

The phenomenon of migrant entrepreneurship refers to business activities undertaken by migrants with a specific socio …-cultural and ethnic background or migrant origin. The studies on migrant entrepreneurship in both the US and Europe have recognized … the significant share of immigrants in SME activities. In the context of migrant entrepreneurship several scholars have …

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A comparative study on innovation in European cities by means of multicriteria analysis

Nijkamp, Peter; Reggiani, Aura - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2000

factors for innovation at the local level, based on micro survey information from firms. In seeking for prominent explanatory … variables for entrepreneurial innovation in various classes of European cities, a particular multivariate method - i.e., Regime … generates a wide range of interesting empirical results on innovation factors in European cities. …

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Foreign direct Investment and learning regions development in new EU countries

Geenhuizen, Marina van; Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2004

In this study we address the potential rise of innovative regions in Central and Eastern Europe by connecting the interests of foreign investors and the interests of recipient regions as learning regions. Our exploratory results give a rather pessimistic picture in that enhancing the innovative...

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Drivers of entrepreneurial location as an innovative act

Nijkamp, Peter; Ommeren, Jos van - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2004

This paper regards locational choice as an entrepreneurial act and seeks to identify the drivers of locational choice of SME finns. Based on a recent database on Dutch entrepreneurs, factoranalytic methods are deployed to trace three clusters of driving forces.

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