Purpose This study focuses on extra-curricular start-up programs for students at higher educational institutions. It explores the social and situated learning experiences of who participate in programs, as well how processes outcomes entrepreneurial are potentially shaped by this context. Design/methodology/approach The follows multiple cohorts have participated an program managed three collabo...

Purpose Entrepreneurial ecosystems provide the context for start-ups to access resources. The authors investigate reliance of on their entrepreneurial ecosystem and driving factors behind proportion local actors (belonging ecosystem) within overall set relationships (their business ecosystem). Recognizing limited relational capacity firms, focus three differentiating firm characteristics: size,...

We study the starting resources of start-ups, which develop and market new products or services based upon a proprietary technology or skill. We define these companies as research-based start-ups (RBSUs). We look at how technological, financial and human resources at founding cluster together to form different starting resource configurations. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of RBSUs in B...

The Medical Expert Support Tool (MEST) is aimed at helping the clinician in recognizing risk factors in the patient status by offering a multiparametric overview, and by highlighting the individual situation using meaningful colors (green, yellow and red) in order to compare the person physiological parameters with the computed profile. The medical professionals configure the conditions (releva...

IFRN – Mossoró is a Brazilian technical education institute that develops several activities to encourage entrepreneurship, such as a curricular discipline about enterprise management and the existence of a business incubator. Despite efforts, the business incubator does not produce the expected effects. Therefore, what predisposes students to start their own business? If literature review expl...

This paper studies the effects of capital taxation in a dynamic heterogeneous-agent economy with uninsurable entrepreneurial risk. Although it allows for rich general-equilibrium effects and a stationary distribution of wealth, the model is highly tractable. This permits a clear analysis, not only of the steady state, but also of the entire transitional dynamics following any change in tax poli...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Abstract How does financial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and crosscountry inequality? This paper investigates this question within a two-country, general-equilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic ...

How does nancial integration impact capital accumulation, current-account dynamics, and cross-country inequality? This paper investigates this question within a two-country, generalequilibrium, incomplete-markets model that focuses on the importance of idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk a risk that introduces, not only a precautionary motive for saving, but also a wedge between the interest rat...