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Building A Sustainable End-To-End Aquaculture Solution, Gibran Huzaifah
Building A Sustainable End-To-End Aquaculture Solution, Gibran Huzaifah
Asian Management Insights
Gibran Huzaifah, founder and CEO of eFishery, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in the aquaculture space.
Societal Sustainability: Projects To Address The Three Dimensions Of A Sustainable Future, Braden K. Bateman
Societal Sustainability: Projects To Address The Three Dimensions Of A Sustainable Future, Braden K. Bateman
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Sustainability is an important, commonly discussed societal goal regarding assurance of resources for the world to be able to enjoy a prosperous future. Three primary dimensions of sustainability include environmental, economic, and social sustainability, and objectives for various projects can be aimed at any of the three dimensions to pursue societal sustainability. Solar installations, which can be used to pursue environmental and economic sustainability, convert abundant sunlight to electricity, displacing fossil fuel use that contributes harmful greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The regulatory environment at the state level has a significant impact on the feasibility of solar projects. At present, …
Caracterización De Las Ideas De Emprendimiento Empresarial Desarrolladas Por Asociados De Asogatenjo Tenjo Cundinamarca, Juan Sebastián Arana Villa
Caracterización De Las Ideas De Emprendimiento Empresarial Desarrolladas Por Asociados De Asogatenjo Tenjo Cundinamarca, Juan Sebastián Arana Villa
Administración de Agronegocios
En este trabajo se ha planteado como objetivo identificar los aspectos característicos de las ideas de emprendimiento empresarial que se desarrollan en los contextos rurales. Para dar cumplimiento a este objetivo se ha considerado pertinente emplear la metodología de investigación de tipo deductivo, a partir de la cual se realizó el estudio de los planteamientos teóricos referentes al emprendimiento y al emprendimiento rural que brindarían el conocimiento necesario sobre estos para hacer la caracterización en el caso de estudio. Como herramienta de investigación se utilizó la encuesta, la cual fue aplicada a 30 productores pertenecientes a la Asociación de Ganaderos …
How Does Energy Matter? Rural Electrification, Entrepreneurship, And Community Development In Kenya, Antoine Vernet, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Vivian George, Gerard George, Abubakar S. Bahaj
How Does Energy Matter? Rural Electrification, Entrepreneurship, And Community Development In Kenya, Antoine Vernet, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Vivian George, Gerard George, Abubakar S. Bahaj
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
We examine the impact of rural electrification on individuals and businesses within a community in order to test a resource-based theory of entrepreneurship. We show that access to electricity increases average households’ income and entrepreneurial activities. The impact of electricity on entrepreneurial activity has wide-ranging implications for development policy in countries where access to electricity is sparse. Results show a significant difference in entrepreneurial opportunities with respect to firm formation, with the electrified site reporting more new micro-enterprises than the control site after implementation. Electrification affects both households’ income, individuals’ perceptions of their social position, and opportunities for business development. …
Lighting The Flame Of Entrepreneurship Among Agribusiness Students, Christiane Schroeter, Lindsey Higgins, Carlyn Wright
Lighting The Flame Of Entrepreneurship Among Agribusiness Students, Christiane Schroeter, Lindsey Higgins, Carlyn Wright
Christiane Schroeter
Effectively Alleviating Poverty Requires Economic Development: The Role Non-Profits Serve In This Endeavor, Dustin Michael Lape
Effectively Alleviating Poverty Requires Economic Development: The Role Non-Profits Serve In This Endeavor, Dustin Michael Lape
Senior Honors Theses
The aim of this paper is to analyze the role that nonprofit organizations can play in utilizing economic development to alleviate poverty. The thesis components will be analyzed by answering six research questions (RQ): (1) What is economic development in developing countries? (2) What is the connection between economic development and poverty alleviation? (3) What are some examples of economic development lessening poverty? (4) What are the essential features of a nonprofit organization? (5) What can nonprofit organizations do to create economic development? and finally, (6) What are archetypical examples of nonprofits creating economic development and reducing poverty? To understand …
Law Estates Wine, Devon Pitts, Cheyenne Jepsen, Will Akkaya
Law Estates Wine, Devon Pitts, Cheyenne Jepsen, Will Akkaya
Case Studies in Agribusiness
Law Estate Wine differentiates its high end wines through quality and highly personal wine tastings. Believing that word of mouth and personal experience is the best way to market high end wines, Law offers tastings only through appointments, with 4-6 people per tasting. They also submit wines to selective wine journals and competitions. This selective business model appears to be successful for this boutique (under 10,000 cases) winery.
On Some Of The Misconceptions About Entrepreneurship, Murray Hunter
On Some Of The Misconceptions About Entrepreneurship, Murray Hunter
Murray Hunter
Entrepreneurship has been played up by the media as a visionary and heroic activity. Individual entrepreneurs have been glorified through media coverage, biographies, and publicity contributing to many government and public misconceptions entrepreneurship. This paper examines some of the myths about entrepreneurship, looking at relevant research and statistics, and paints a very different picture to general public perceptions. The paper then goes on to postulate that entrepreneurship is only part of the firm lifecycle, very little innovation is generated by start-up ventures, there is no common entrepreneurial type of person, people start new businesses for non-rational reasons, very few entrepreneurs …
Enrgy Tour 2000 : Tour Report 27 March - 8 April 2000, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales., Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia, Progress Rural Western Australia
Enrgy Tour 2000 : Tour Report 27 March - 8 April 2000, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales., Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia, Progress Rural Western Australia
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eNRGy tour 2000 - an opportunity for twenty young rural West Australians to travel to the Eastern States of Australia to explore opportunities for innovation, value adding and entrepreneurship that could be applied here in Western Australia on their return.