Small enterprises may face a number of challenges to growth, including capital constraints, lack of skills and poor self-control. This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment involving microenterprise owners in Uganda designed to explore these constraints. Individuals from a pool of business owners who expressed interest in expanding their enterprises were randomly selected to rec...

We use a natural experiment in Denmark to test the hypothesis that aspiring entrepreneurs face financial constraints because of low entrepreneurial quality. We identify 304 constrained entrepreneurs who start a business after receiving windfall wealth and examine the performance of these marginal entrepreneurs. We find that constrained entrepreneurs have significantly lower survival rates and l...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory cell infiltration around the sites of carcinoma invasion is believed to play important roles in carcinoma biological behavior. MATERIALS AND METHODS The status of inflammatory cell infiltration at the sites of frank invasion in 97 cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) were examined, with special emphasis on the status of tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia...

Mantel cell lymphoma is one of the small B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas and usually involves lymph nodes, bone marrow, spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, and Waldeyer’s ring, but rarely skin and orbit. A 53-year-old man presented skin nodules and plaques on the head, trunk, and lower extremities for half a month, and the left periorbital region swelled 4 days ago. Serum calcium and lactate ...

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneous agents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, job matching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, so that the opportunity costs of entrepreneurs are accounted for. We find that (1) individuals who are relatively unmanageable become entre...

Trust is an important determinant of start-up fi nancing. In a simple agentbased model it is determined what the best trusting strategy is for a collective of investors and whether it is rational for an individual investor to deviate from this collective optimum. Trust depends on a measure of social distance and is the precondition for investment. Trust increases and decreases based on whether ...

We report a very rare case of primary low grade mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma of the oesophagus. An 83 year old woman was referred to our hospital in June 1999 for further examination and treatment of oesophageal tumour. Although a physical examination and laboratory data showed no significant abnormalities, endoscopic observation revealed two slightly elevated submucosal tu...

Entrepreneurs often struggle to find sufficient funding for their start-ups. A relatively new way for companies to attract capital is via an internet platform, locating investors who in return receive something in return for their ventures. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of crowdfunding, and is also known as crowdinvesting in the German-speaking realm. This article predominantly ad...

Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innova...

This paper is a reflection of the author’s views on recent research developments at the interface of entrepreneurship and regional economic development and growth. The paper begins with an overview of the recent rise of interest in entrepreneurship in general and, in particular, with respect to its influence on regional economic growth and development. Following an introduction the formation an...