JEUNE Administrative Council met in Barcelona on June 17th.
At the meeting, several issues were discussed such as the establishment of a JEUNE strategy. In order to improve the visibility of our organization, we will write a “JEUNE declaration” on the principal needs of the young entrepreneurs. Moreover, we welcome Dariusz Zuk, President of Academic Incubators of Entrepreneurship from Poland, which was accepted as a new member of JEUNE.
This appendix contains all the underlying data, tables and cross tabulations stemming from the “Survey on Entrepreneurship in Higher Education in Europe”.
The report explains why entrepreneurship matters to American higher education and offers broad recommendations about the potential of entrepreneurship as a key element in undergraduate education, the major, graduate study, the evaluation of faculty, topics referred to as the “co-curriculum,” and the management of universities. In reaching its conclusions, the Panel examined an array of educational models and practices and also discussed the possibility of a disciplinary canon for entrepreneurship. It concluded—wisely, in our view—that the diversity of institutional types and educational missions of American colleges and universities make a single approach to entrepreneurship both unrealistic and inauthentic. Thus, the report aims to be suggestive rather than prescriptive and supplies illustrations from a variety of colleges and universities as concrete exemplars of its general points.
“In the past few years, for many reasons, but mainly given the growing and prolonged unemployment rate, society has started to recognize the existence of entrepreneurs. Men and women who create their own enterprises, generating employment and wealth, in ways that differ from the capitalist. These individuals, as Say2 assumed, gather skills that are less common than the ones needed to follow faithfully the orders given by others. Men and women that have already been recognized for their important social and economic role, their initiative and creativity, their entrepreneurial and risk taking spirit, their courage and valuable contribution to society; and who at the same time are being encouraged and supported by governments, political parties and managers of all levels” (Veciana, 1997).
The primary objective of the case is to provide current and future managers with a better understanding of the specifics related to the introduction of changes in the information technologies used in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Teaching notes include case summary, goals, target groups, training techniques,topics for discussions.
The primary objective of the case is to provide current and future managers with a better understanding of the specifics related to the introduction of changes in the information technologies used in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
This document is an investment proposal for the “Great seven G7” company – a student initiative, prepared in accordance to the Junior achievement contest requirement.
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in relevant occupations also strongly predict entry. These forces plus city and industry Öxed e§ects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns.
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and developing countries, which enables us to present both cross-country and industry-level evidence. We find a positive robust correlation between de jure and de facto measures of international financial integration and proxies for entrepreneurial activity such as entry, size, and skewness of the firm-size distribution. We then explore potential channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries which have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in industries which are more reliant on external finance is disproportionately affected by international financial integration.
This article reviews two major streams of work examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. The first research stream considers the impact of financial market development on entrepreneurship. These papers usually employ variations across regions to examine how differences in observable characteristics of financial sectors (e.g., the level of competition among banks, the depth of credit markets) relate to entrepreneurs’ access to finance and realized rates of firm formation. The second stream employs variations across individuals to examine how propensities to start new businesses relate to personal wealth or recent changes therein. The notion behind this second line of research is that an association of individual wealth and propensity for self-employment or firm creation should be observed only if financial constraints for entrepreneurship exist.