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Bestimmungsgründe der Wettbewerbsposition der Tourismusdestination Österreich – Ein modellorientierter Ansatz
Smeral, Egon - In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 4 (2012) 1, pp. 5-20
Zusammenfassung Die Haupt-Ansatzpunkte für die öffentliche Tourismuspolitik mit dem zentralen Ziel, die Wettbewerbsposition eines Landes bzw. einer Destination zu verbessern, fallen großteils mit den Determinanten der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zusammen. Wichtige Eckpunkte für die Formulierung...
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Business dynamics and innovation: the role of the space
Segarra Blasco, Agustí - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 15, pp. 5-23
, among others, has facilitated the study of the dynamics entrepreneurship and innovation from a territorial approach. The …
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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess spin-offs from a university-based technology transfer network. We first detect the regional objectives, inputs and outputs needed to assess spin-offs from support programmes. We then provide evidence on regional mechanisms for firm creation....
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Assessing Technology-based Spin-offs from University Support Units
Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess the efficiency of technology-based spin-offs that benefited from financial and infrastructure aid. It does so by following the objectives of institutions for regional support and provides evidence on spin-offs created within the special case...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
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, stages of development, and industrialization
Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
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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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David; Regets, Mark C. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2013
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … beyond traditional perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR OFFICIAL STATISTICS FROM E.U. COUNTRIES
National Institute of Statistics Romania - In: Romanian Statistical Review 60 (2012) 7, pp. 13-38
The European Union, through the Europe 2020 program, adopted by European Council in June 2010, aims at exploiting in the next decade the globalization potential in order to stimulate the economic growth and employment. At EU level it was defi ned the integrated industrial policy for...
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