entrepreneurship

The present paper was motivated by the recent interest put on the regional context as having a major role tracing economic agents behaviours and inducing productive activity. Three main goals have been defined: to emphasise the relation between favourable regional factors for development and firm performance in the case of the most industrialised Portuguese regions; to distinguish in each region its own propensity for sustainable development and to evaluate if the region may be considered as intrinsic co-operative or resistant to co-operation.

This paper attempts to examine the role of entrepreneurship, and those of innovation activities (technical change, research and development and diffusion of technology) and the effects of output growth, according to the Schumpeterian lines.

The objective of this paper is to know the attitudes of the Andalusian university students towards entrepreneurial activity and the creation of enterprises. Those students are especially relevant, since they belong to that strategic segment of higher entrepreneurial potential individuals.

The present article is dedicated to the consideration of the reasons and directions of conceptual changes in the business activity realization; to the problems of the devel-opment of business enterprise as learning organization and creation of the corporate universities; to the experience and tendencies of the concentration and realization of in-tellectual capital.

This series of four symposia identified that the Greater Lehigh Valley and regions like it face a serious challenge as they seek to thrive in the 21st Century. The report offers recommendations to gain practical, actionable understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship in today’s commoditized global economy.

Microdata are used to produce more complete self-employment figures and to follow trends in self-employed business owner demographics. This study finds that self-employment numbers have grown slow and steadily since the late 1970s.

The authors provide a theory identifying at least one source of entrepreneurial opportunity – new knowledge and ideas that are not fully commercialized by the organization actually investing in the creation of that knowledge.

This paper develops a model that introduces a filter between knowledge and economic knowledge and identifies entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981-2001 provides empirical support for the model.

The paper provides a framework for quantifying any economy’s flexibility, and reviews the evidence on New Zealand firms’ birth, growth and death. The data indicate that, by and large, the labour market and the financial market are doing their job.

The report discusses developing information on the utilization of programs to assist small businesses owned and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans and to make appropriate recommendations to the Administrator of the SBA and to the Congress in order to promote the establishment and growth of these firms.