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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

José Luis, Massón-Guerra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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Who needs credit and who gets credit? Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study, we use data from the Federal Reserve’s 1993, 1998 and 2003 Surveys of Small Business Finances to classify small businesses into four groups based upon their credit needs and to model the credit allocation process into a sequence of three steps. First, do firms need credit? We...

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Bank credit, trade credit or no credit: Evidence from the Surveys of Small Business Finances

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this study, we use data from the SSBFs to provide new information about the use of credit by small businesses in the U.S. More specifically, we first analyze firms that do and do not use credit; and then analyze why some firms use trade credit while others use bank credit. We find that one in...

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How do firms choose legal form of organization?

Cole, Rebel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In this study, we analyze the firm’s choice of legal form of organization (“LFO”). We find that only about one in three firms begins operations as a proprietorship, while almost as many begin as limited-liability companies and as corporations. Moreover, this distribution is remarkably...

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Small Business, Innovation, and Tax Policy: A Review

Gale, William; Brown, Samuel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Small businesses occupy an iconic place in American public policy debates. This paper discusses interactions between the federal tax code, small business, and the economy. We summarize the characteristics of small businesses, identify the tax provisions that most affect small businesses, and...

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Evidence from SMEs in Prishtina region, Kosovo

Govori, Arbiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper we address the innovation strategies of SMEs engaged in the …

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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach

Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …

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Exploring Greek innovation activities: the adoption of generalized linear models

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we examine the innovative performance of Greek firms in terms of the women participation in research and technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and science, based on 279 questionnaires...

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Economic theory and social change: problems and revisions

Fusari, Angelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Although many economists do a serious and respectable work, main stream economic theory contains an almost complete disregard for the importance of social, cultural and political structures which are the very foundation of the society. Worse than that, such disregard is developed into arrogance...

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