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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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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses of the Turkish...
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Where the theory of free competition reigns, developing countries should open their arms to investments from all types of enterprises in order to maximize jobs. Ownership, measured by votes of shareholders or boards of directors, is immaterial to performance. Matters change drastically, though,...
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We … use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range … effects of entrepreneurship in general and growth-oriented entrepreneurship in particular. We present empirical tests of the …
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, as in labor market matching models. Deriving a novel Entrepreneurship-Beveridge curve, we show that a successful start … possible applications of this matching approach to formalize the economics of entrepreneurship. …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development and entrepreneurship. Given … the neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the … intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on that relationship between entrepreneurship …
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reviewing existing literature on rural development, innovation and entrepreneurship. …
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Governance is often treated as a 'black box' explanation for unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship. In order to … improve our understanding of how governance structures influence entrepreneurship and innovation it is instructive to consider … game of informal clientelism and formal programmatic competition shapes entrepreneurship. In this paper I provide an …
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In many developing countries, pro-poor entrepreneurship and innovation is facing a financing gap. Such innovation …
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