I consider an environment in which entrepreneur generates information about the quality of his project prior to contracting with investor. The investor faces a moral hazard problem since may divert funding for private consumption. find that efficient amount is generated if and only bargaining power high enough. interpret this result terms investors' tightness, competitiveness, generosity measur...

Founded on the assumption that poor people are “natural entrepreneurs” (Bornstein 2005), microfinance has signaled a paradigm shift in development ideology. Using my experiences with microfinance in a fishing village in Senegal, this study will address the claims driving the microfinance movement, debate its pros and cons and pose further questions about its validity and widespread implementati...

Abstract Few studies in the business ethics literature explore marginalized populations, such as racially minoritized entrepreneur. This absence is an ethical issue for academy it limits advancement of racial epistemologies. study explores how this exclusionary space emerges within by identifying white solipsistic behavior, ‘othering’ populations. Using a multi-method approach, we find homogeni...

A particular relevance of intellectualization of entrepreneurship is proved in the article. It is offered the concept of "intellectual securing for entrepreneurship". The intellectual securing provides the organization and self-organization of continuous information and knowledge torrents in the system "education-science-entrepreneurship". Intellectual entrepreneurship is considered as the resu...

The Biochemist spoke to Deborah O’Neil, the CEO and founder of NovaBiotics, find out about her journey commercialization research. A biotechnology entrepreneur immunologist by training, has over two decades experience in drug discovery development was named as one 20 women leaders European biotech 2019. In 2020, made OBE Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services biotechnology, industry charity...

There are many reasons why the gender imbalance in computing should be of concern to the profession. Over the last 20 years there have been many intervention programs which attempt to redress this situation and encourage more women into computing. To determine whether an intervention program has made a difference requires evaluation. Program evaluation is the careful collecting of information a...

In the last decade or so, there has been a growing interest in an area that researchers are calling social entrepreneurship. This paper describes the structure and process of international development in Africa from the perspective of a social entrepreneur. It begins with a review of the latest concepts in social entrepreneurship, a movement spearheaded by individuals with a desire to make the ...