Browsing by Subject "Entrepreneurship"
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The Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship (ACE) initiative: Creating entrepreneurial graduates for Ireland
(2009)This paper will discuss how Irish HEIs can improve their provision of entrepreneurship education in order to affect positive economic growth. In particular this research explores the approach, process and research of the ... -
Doubly disadvantaged: Gender, spatially concentrated deprivation and nascent entrepreneurial activity
(Wiley, 2019-12-02)Drawing on human capital, intersectionality and mixed embeddedness theory, we test hypotheses on the relationship between gender differences in human capital and gender differences in nascent entrepreneurial activity across ... -
Examining the legitimation strategies of sustainability-oriented entrepreneurs
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-29)The idea that business plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of our world has grown within the corporate sustainability literature and in global sustainability discourse generally. There is also a growing ... -
Fostering University-Industry R&D Collaborations in European Union Countries.
(Whitaker Institute - NUI Galway, 2014-05)This paper advances our understanding of university - industry research and development (R&D) collaborations. These strategic relationships are a dimension of entrepreneurial activity, and they are thus important drivers ... -
Gender gaps and reentry into entrepreneurial ecosystems after business failure
(Springer Verlag, 2018-02-09)Despite the significant role played by serial entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial process, we know little about group differences in reentry decisions after business failure. Using an ecosystems framework and stigma theory, ... -
Local Clusters and Global Entrepreneurship: The significance of spatial and relational propinquity in new firm formation
(CISC, 2010-10)This paper explores the significance of local proximity for new firm formation in particular industries. Within the literature, entrepreneurs are viewed as critical to industrial cluster formation and development in ... -
The micro-institutional dynamics of entrepreneurship in the university
(2014-10-30)This study explores how micro-institutional dynamics shape the entrepreneurial propensity of academics in the university context. The study was motivated by the need for greater understanding of the micro-foundations of ... -
National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurship
(2008-09-26)Porter (1990) argues that the future battles for competitiveness will not be fought just between organisations but also between nations. Looking at the nation as the unit of analysis, one way to become more competitive ... -
The Process of Business Failure: Internal Management Perspectives
(2012-09-20)The principal aim of this research is to gain an in-depth understanding into the process of small business failure from an internal management perspective through the exploration of multiple entrepreneurs' individual ... -
Professional women’s entrepreneurship in Amman City, Jordan: Drivers and impacts
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-20)Women entrepreneurs took more than 30 years to be identified as an individual group. Yet, early work on women’s entrepreneurship can be branded as mostly descriptive, examining. Women’s entrepreneurship has been used as ... -
Technology innovation and entrepreneurship: learning manual for the Diploma in Technology Commercialisation
(Atlantic University Alliance, 2008)[No abstract available]