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Startup Life May Stop Here: Helping Women Entrepreneurs In Sub-Saharan Africa, Amr Swid, Emily Rukobo, Elizabeth Maro
Startup Life May Stop Here: Helping Women Entrepreneurs In Sub-Saharan Africa, Amr Swid, Emily Rukobo, Elizabeth Maro
Journal of Global Business Insights
A great emphasis exists in research on entrepreneurs who start small- to medium-size businesses and who are seizing opportunities outside the corporate world, especially in developing countries like Tanzania. Women entrepreneurs have the highest representation of all entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region. Entrepreneurs everywhere face unique hardships that could determine the fate of their businesses. Women entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region have additional struggles to start and sustain their businesses. The participants in this study were randomly selected from women entrepreneurs who participated in the 2017 NYIT Launch in Moshi, Tanzania. The researchers conducted virtual qualitative interviews and focus groups …
Venture Acceleration And Entrepreneurial Growth In Central America, Hans Rawhouser, Christopher Sutter, Ian Mcdonough
Venture Acceleration And Entrepreneurial Growth In Central America, Hans Rawhouser, Christopher Sutter, Ian Mcdonough
Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology Faculty Publications
Intermediaries such as accelerators support entrepreneurial activity in developing countries by connecting entrepreneurs to critical resources and by reshaping the entrepreneurial ventures so they can better participate in larger markets. Existing research has examined the activities intermediaries undertake and how these activities influence intermediary effectiveness. However, we know much less about which entrepreneurial ventures benefit from intermediation. Using 24 months of pre- and post-intervention sales data for 139 ventures working with a business accelerator in Central America, we find that facilitating resource acquisition is less important than the constraints to change within the entrepreneurial ventures themselves. Thus, our study suggests …
Slides: Draft Power In Developing Country Agriculture--South Asia, Arjun Makhijani
Slides: Draft Power In Developing Country Agriculture--South Asia, Arjun Makhijani
2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition (September 17-18)
Presenter: Dr. Arjun Makhijani, President, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
13 slides
Slides: Impacts Of Energy Deficits In Cooking, Illumination, Water, Sanitation, And Motive Power, Paul S. Chinowsky
Slides: Impacts Of Energy Deficits In Cooking, Illumination, Water, Sanitation, And Motive Power, Paul S. Chinowsky
2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition (September 17-18)
Presenter: Dr. Paul Chinowsky, Director, Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities; Professor, University of Colorado
25 slides
Entrepreneurial Inclination Of Students At A Private University In Malaysia, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Kamal Kishore Jain, Mohar Yusof
Entrepreneurial Inclination Of Students At A Private University In Malaysia, Manjit Singh Sandhu, Kamal Kishore Jain, Mohar Yusof
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
Most past studies on students’ entrepreneurial intention tend to focus on the phenomenon in developed countries.There is limited research on entrepreneurial intention of university students from developing nations. This article intends to close this gap by providing some insights into students’ entrepreneurial inclination in a developing country, Malaysia. A total of 234 students from three faculties at both graduate and undergraduate levels were surveyed to examine their entrepreneurial inclination and also to examine the relationship between their demographic and social characteristics with entrepreneurial inclination.The study found strong entrepreneurial inclination among the students. Significant difference was found between students studying part …
Knowledge, Technology Trajectories, And Innovation In A Developing Country Context: Evidence From A Survey Of Malaysian Firms, Deepak Hegde, Philip Shapira
Knowledge, Technology Trajectories, And Innovation In A Developing Country Context: Evidence From A Survey Of Malaysian Firms, Deepak Hegde, Philip Shapira
Philip Shapira