Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: 1996-2008

Listeriosis, Taiwan, 1996–2008

During 1996-2008, a total of 48 patients with listeriosis were identified at a Taiwan hospital. Average annual incidence increased from 0.029 to 0.118 cases per 1,000 admissions before and after January 2005. Serotype 1/2b predominated; serotype 4b emerged since 2004. Food monitoring and disease surveillance systems could help control listeriosis in Taiwan.

1996 Index

Entrepreneurial Activity in Equilibrium ∗

This paper compares the financing of new ventures in start-ups (entrepreneurship) and in established firms (intrapreneurship). Intrapreneurship allows established firms to use information on failed intrapreneurs to redeploy them into other jobs. Instead, failed entrepreneurs must seek other jobs in an imperfectly informed external labor market. While this is ex-post inefficient, it provides ent...

Correlation of Income Inequality and Entrepreneurial Activity

The fact of growth of inequality in distribution of income both inside the national economies and between the countries is confirmed by many empirical studies. In particular, these are annual reports of the World Bank, UNIDO and European Commission. The growth of inequality in distribution of income causes social tension inside the countries and promotes conflicts between the countries. Entrepr...

Author Index 2008.PDF

Abdullah Hj MS et al: see Naqiyah Baharudin DH et al ................... 811 Abdulqawi R et al: see Ahmad S et al ............................................. 615 Adibi I et al: see Taheri H et al ...................................................... 764 Adibi P et al: see Taheri H et al ..................................................... 764 Agarwal AA et al: see Mattar CN et al .............