Using fixed effects regression analysis on unbalanced panel of 40 countries over the period 2002 2007, I found that the entrepreneurship potential of a country is potentially at risk if the growth of large firms' stake in the economy is left unchallenged.
"Like many emerging economies, Iran has a large population, one which is substantially educated and has a large entrepreneurship potential," he says.
In particular, and despite the widespread notion that electricity access can in and of itself ignite entrepreneurship potential (and in turn, increase electricity demand), there is very little research that explores the complementary infrastructure that can ignite that potential.
But, while individual unemployment encourages entrepreneurship, aggregate unemployment discourages it (Berglann et al. 2011); hence in order to take the full advantage of the entrepreneurship potential associated with job losses during cyclical downturns, labor market policies should probably be particularly designed to prioritize job creation in bad times.
MEPs urge EU member states to remove hurdles for women entrepreneurs, and table strategies for making full use of female entrepreneurship potential to boost growth and prosperity, say MEPs in a non-legislative resolution voted on Tuesday.
The 'organic square of entrepreneurship' (resource potential, market, economic organization and public policy) links the individual characteristics of the entrepreneur and the environmental factors to explain entrepreneurship.
He too was impressed by "the high quality of entries and presentations as well as their energy and drive to make a difference". Abdin said that the contestants demonstrated "the potential this region has in terms of entrepreneurship, and that potential needs nurturing both from educational and legal standpoint also". Ulrich said the competition was no less rigorous than those held at Wharton.
The merit-based awards will be granted on the basis of demonstrated interest in entrepreneurship and future potential as an entrepreneur.
Poverty-alleviation programs based on social entrepreneurship have the potential to improve living conditions and to launch at least some people on a trajectory of gradual transformation, but the effects are unlikely to diffuse to entire communities.
