Public policy statements on enterprise and entrepreneurship education have emphasised its importance in relation to the promotion of economic growth, community development and resilience. However, there is continuing debate over the nature, scope and effectiveness of existing approaches. For example, a recent United Kingdom government study found that while there is evidence of an overall stren...

Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis for Germany* In this paper we investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in a cross section of German regions for the period 1998-2005. Departing from the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, the focus of our analysis is on the role of the regional environment and, in particular, knowledge and cultural diversi...

COMMON GROUND IN PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS by H. D. Vinod, Professor of Economics, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 10458 Prepared for presentation at the Conference on Entrepreneurship and Human Rights, August 1-3, 2005, Fordham University, New York. comments to [email protected] ABSTRACT A failure in providing human rights is generally due to at least four factors: ba...

The aim of this chapter is to challenge the context of entrepreneurship competences and management capabilities needed for innovation. We build our arguments in step with actual practice analyzing data from over 200 innovative companies which have been created under the formal requirements of a regional business plan competition during the last 10 years. This study explores the crucial capabili...

Why do some employees bring their own information technology (IT) to work? This behavior occurs in firms that provide considerable IT for employee use and in firms that have policies and governance that discourage employees from using consumer IT as corporate IT. In the theory of the firm, IT policy and governance are means for a firm to maximize value from its IT and to ensure employees do wha...

This contribution discusses a theory of entrepreneurship, its empirical base, and its implications. First, it argues that a psychological approach is necessary to understand entrepreneurship. Second, it argues that any theory of entrepreneurship should use active actions as a starting point — entrepreneurship is the epitome of an active agent in the market (rather than a reactive agent). Third,...

This review article systematically summarizes the existing literature on utilizing machine learning (ML) techniques for control and monitoring of electric drives. It is anticipated that with rapid progress in algorithms specialized embedded hardware platforms, ML-based data-driven approaches will become standard tools automated high-performance In addition, this also provides some outlook towar...

This conceptual paper is triggered by the backdrop that graduates emerging from developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan African region seem not to be strong enough their personal capacity, resolve and drive becoming independent entrepreneurs, perhaps as a result of fear, inertia, unwillingness take-risk. These drawbacks somewhat suggest prevailing innovative entrepreneurship educ...

A wide range of United States political policies influence the level of innovative entrepreneurial activity in the country, that is the number of new businesses started each year that bring truly new products and ideas to the market. These policies begin with an educational system that fosters a creative, inventive, and educated population with the skills to start new businesses. Immigration po...