This paper surveys recent evidence suggesting that market-oriented institutions and policies are strongly related to economic growth, focusing on studies using the economic freedom indicator of the Fraser Institute. This index is critically discussed. Also various serious shortcomings of empirical studies using this index are identified. Nevertheless there are strong indications that liberaliza...

This paper examines the connection between people’s trust or cynicism in major U.S. institutions and their vote cast for President in the 2000 election. The absence of confidence and trust fuels cynicism, an attitude that may lead elites to exploit institutional resources and the public to withdraw their support from important institutions. We examined the 13 measures of confidence-trust in the...

Abstract This paper theorizes how institutional conditions influence students’ entrepreneurship dynamics (e.g., nascent and active), especially these related to environments where students are mostly exposed university country), as well the moderation effect of type economy post-socialist marked-oriented). We tested our proposed theoretical model in a sample 91,105 from 557 European universitie...

This paper describes the results of co-operation between universities and research institutions from more than ten countries in Europe within the framework of the TEMPUS, EUROPRACTICE, COPERNICUS and ESPRIT programmes. As a consequence of these projects, a new competence centre in the field of electronics and systems engineering was created at the Technical University of Tallinn. A new set of r...

The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing is the latest protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Its implementation can lead to two fundamentally different processes: a market-oriented self-regulatory approach, which emphasizes the self-regulating capacity of the economic actors involved, or a normative institutionalist approach, which focuses on the norms and formal ru...

The Information Systems (IS) community is discussing the relevance of its research. Design-oriented IS research is considered a promising approach since it combines practical relevance and scientific rigor. Only limited guidance, however, is available for the researcher to gain access to and exchange knowledge from the practitioners’ domain. Consortium research addresses this issue. It is resea...