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Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity
- Project name/title
- Promoting Entrepreneurial Capacity
- Year:
- 2008
- Theme:
- Development and Finance
- Abstract:
- Entrepreneurship can play an important role in structural economic change and in improving wellbeing. Governments and international institutions are investing increasing resources to promote entrepreneurship. This project aims at a greater understanding of the ways in which entrepreneurial capacity can be harnessed for overall economic development. In particular more light will be thrown on the sources of entrepreneurial growth in the global economy, and how public policy may strengthen the allocation and contributions of entrepreneurs towards innovation, technological catch-up and competition. The project will commission research papers (and solicit papers through workshops) on (a) the concept and measurement of entrepreneurship; (b) the influence of entrepreneurship on economic development, (c) the institutional prerequisites for a dynamic entrepreneurial and small business sector and (d) the regional and country level dynamics of entrepreneurship. Target audiences include academics, policy makers in developing and donor countries, international development agencies and entrepreneurs.
- Keywords:
- Entrepreneurship, economic development, start-ups, small businesses, innovation, self-employment, structural economic transformation, private sector development, risk-taking, occupational choice
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- Publications:
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- Credit Constraints, Entrepreneural talent, and Economic Development
- Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators
- Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants
- Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental State: Lessons from the Advanced Economies
- Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia
- Entrepreneurship and Quality of Institutions
- Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups
- Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation
- Entrepreneurship and Welfare
- Entrepreneurship in Economic Development
- Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries
- Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context Retrospect and Prospect
- Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies
- Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs
- Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in India, 1991–2007
- High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach
- Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries
- Informal Firms in Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Stepping Stone or Consolation Prize?
- Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish View
- Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
- The Interplay of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: The Case of Uganda
- Is that Innovation?: Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam
- Linkages, Access to Finance and the Performance of Small-Scale Enterprises in Kenya
- Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
- Optimal Distance to Port for Exporting Firms
- Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?
- Peace, Prosperity, and Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship
- Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development
- Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
- When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs
- ‘Rushing in where Angels Fear to Tread?’: The Early Internationalization of Indigenous Chinese Firms
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