This case examines technological entrepreneurship and human capital in a remote village in southeast India. Sethu Sethunarayanan, director of the nongovernment organization (NGO) Center for Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), uses technology to improve the lives of impoverished people,...

Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...

This paper explores the internationalization scope of new technology based firms (NTBFs) during their early years of operation. Internationalization is considered as a growth strategy in its own right whose successful implementation requires relevant resources and capabilities. We focus on the...

This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we extend Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to formally model performance effects of balanced skills. In a second step we investigate potential sources of balanced skills related to the...

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers on the composition of human capital in newly founded firms. The papers are all empirical but they are closely related to two theoretical approaches. The first approach is the jack-ofall-trades model by Lazear (2005) and the...

SUMMARY Rasa Kairienė Improvement of Entrepreneurship of Small Sales Businesses Master’s studies final thesis, 67 pages, 10 figures, 11 tables, 47 references, 2 appendices, in Lithuanian. KEY Words: businessman, entrepreneurship, human capital, small sales companies, external factors,...

Die endogene Wachstumstheorie und die Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung ?berlagern sich stark. Sie geben komplement?re Handlungsempfehlungen an die Entwicklungspolitik zur F?rderung des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums und der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und betonen dabei Humankapital und...

Utilizando datos del Programa de Evaluación de Competencias de Adultos (PIAAC, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos, analizamos la brecha en habilidades cognitivas de la población adulta en España con respecto al resto de los países...

The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the US, the UK or Germany, Spain has experienced since 1995 a drop...

En este documento se analiza la forma en que la educación académica y la experiencia profesional correlacionan con el nivel de capital humano, medido por la capacidad cognitiva demostrada en diferentes exámenes numéricos y de comprensión lectora según los datos de la OCDE obtenidos para el...