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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Regional Entrepreneurship"”.
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Unpacking Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Health: An Entrepreneurial Process Approach
… stand out among the crowds? On the one hand, regional entrepreneurship literature highlights the impacts of regional context and structures on regional entrepreneurship, but fails to reveal the reciprocity between them, i.e., how regional entrepreneurship could in turn benefit regional context …
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Analysis of self-employment in prairie Canada from 1987-2006
This paper attempts to provide a basis for future regional entrepreneurship and economic development analysis by studying a particular subset of the labour force in Prairie Canada, self-employed individuals, not employed in agriculture, with employees (SEWE) to test the hypothesis that economies …
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Building innovation-based entrepreneurial communities : an assessment of practitioners' interactions with academically driven curriculum
A growing interest in innovation-based entrepreneurship has surfaced in much of world, producing a large body of related research and capturing the attention of those aiming to direct and improve the economic impact of "practitioners'" home regions. With growing research and limited examples of …
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Three essays on regional economic development
… dissertation explores factors that contribute to regional economic growth. The first two chapters focus on one of the key drivers of regional economic growth: entrepreneurship. In the first two chapters I examine how the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) contributes to entrepreneurship. Chapter 1 …
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An Exploratory Study to Understand the Marwari Business Community's Approach to Entrepreneurship
… the Marwari business community’s approach to Entrepreneurship.<br/><br/>Design:<br/>The study adopts an ‘interpretivist’ paradigm to aid theory building within the subject domain of Entrepreneurship. The study leverages responsive interviewing and observation with an adaptation of ‘inquiry …
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Design of a robust qualitative method to assess MIT REAP impact on formerly engaged innovation ecosystems.
The MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) is a program that seeks to create efficient regional innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide. The program engages with various communities internationally and aims to help regional Teams gain a deeper understanding of the …
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed - New evaluation approaches and insights
… but also as business policy to promote entrepreneurship. The corresponding empirical literature on this topic so far has been mainly focused on the individual labor market perspective, however. The main part of the thesis at hand examines the new start-up subsidy (“Gründungszuschuss”) in …
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Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010
Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognised as an important component of the contemporary knowledge based economy and crucial to the attainment of economic growth and development. However, entrepreneurial activity varies significantly across space within countries. This thesis makes an original …