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-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …
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The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...
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Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.
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Connections in Urban Innovation Systems -- International Standardization of the New Technology Paradigm: A Strategy for Royalty … depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems. It examines text-mining software and analyzes patent … trends toward new innovation systems as well as the concentration and dispersion of national and corporate R&D capabilities …
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According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...
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Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...
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Perspective -- A Systematic Overview of Innovations in Microfinance: Operational, Institutional and Product Innovation -- Funding … Innovation and Lending Mechanisms affects Cost Sustainability of MFIs? -- Productivity, Technological Change and innovations in …
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Chapter 1. A historical Perspective on Disruptive Technologies -- Chapter 2. A Taxonomy of FinTech Innovation …, Vice Rector for International Affairs and Director of InnoLab (Professor of Innovation), University of Vaasa, Finland …) Researcher at the University of Rome. His research focuses on Banking and Innovation, and he has published in renowned academic …
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Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector -- Part I: Consolidation of the Fourth Sector Within the … Revolution of Medellin, Colombia -- Social Innovation, Fourth Sector and the Commodification of the Welfare State: The Portuguese …: Discussion About Social Innovation and Business -- Sustainability Perspective Through Social Responsibility in Microenterprises …
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