We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in eas...

Aiming at identification of the components of competence-based vocational training, and its status in textbooks used in technological high schools, a content analysis of five textbooks on non-technological competencies, commonly used in all fields, was undertaken utilizing a check list considered as valid by curriculum experts. Furthermore, a perusal of related texts and documents revealed thre...

This paper investigates the impacts of progressive trade openness, technological externalities, and heterogeneity of individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise to a non-monotonic process of international specialization, in which the share of entrepreneurial firms in the large (small) country first increases (d...

The article studies possible alternatives of developing technological entrepreneurship in Russia and the world view scenario approach: territorial communications scale Big Eurasia programs; upgrading raw material technologies, particular, mass access small forms business to completion worked-out wells mines; service sector for global economy (construction, transport, education, recreation, etc....

In this essay, we reflect on the conditions that allow firms to play a leading role in ecological transition process. The essay starts with an analysis of technological and economic features eco-efficient technologies. We argue they are weak levers for transition. As eco-efficiency is based profit-maximising goals, pace unlikely peak quickly. fact, profit motive restrains from fully embedding p...

To date much of the entrepreneurial ecosystems literature treated as confined geographic locations with definitive boards. However, in past decades, technological innovation and developments social relationships (e.g., online platforms, media, sharing economy) have extended blurred boundaries ecosystems. Thus, current research on often underestimates reach impacts a given ecosystem. remedy this...

Despite mounting interest in entrepreneurship education (EE), innovative approaches such as multimedia, web-based toolkits including entrepreneurial storytelling have been largely ignored in the EE discipline. Therefore, this conceptual contribution introduces eight propositions as a fruitful basis for assessing a 'learning-through-real-multimedia-entrepreneurial-narratives' pedagogical approac...