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Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI)

Author : Nezameddin Faghih
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030771598
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) written by Nezameddin Faghih and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the perplexing problem of how to capture the qualitative differences that exist in entrepreneurship at any given point in time or across time, by presenting a novel qualitative index: Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI). This comprehensive composite index is based on recognized interactions among different factors affecting intensity and types of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn is impacting the well-being. It brings qualitative differences in entrepreneurship depending on time and space into calculation of the composite index. Besides, EQI is the missing piece of the entrepreneurship puzzle, and the quality of entrepreneurship is a significant factor that shows why less developed countries do not achieve higher levels of economic growth, despite their high rate of entrepreneurial activities. This book does a masterful job in explaining the diversity of existing perspectives, their contributions, and their shortfalls. It applies rigorous tools of mathematical statistics and quality engineering, such as Bayes’ rule, maximum likelihood estimation, six sigma algorithm, and standardization equation, to derive and introduce EQI, as a novel operations research model. It offers a number of important ideas and insights as to how the quality of entrepreneurship can be measured more accurately. It also illustrates the proposed approaches showing their efficacy across time. The proposed solutions are logical and empirically sound; they represent an important leap in thinking about the quality of entrepreneurship. Its contribution is crucial and timely — one that will be well recognized by researchers worldwide. They give a much-needed framework along with the necessary tools to evaluate and measure entrepreneurial activities.

Digitalization and Management Innovation

Author : A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1643683799
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Digitalization and Management Innovation written by A.J. Tallón-Ballesteros and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital era has brought about important changes that continue to affect all our lives. Efficient management and storage of digital information has become crucial, as has the ability to access that information quickly and efficiently, and priorities are to allow for the saving of digital data in many different ways, and to avoid the loss of information in the event of a malfunction. This book presents the 65 papers presented at DMI2022, the first in the new annual conference series Digitalization and Management Innovation (DMI), held as a hybrid event in Beijing, China, on 26 November 2022. A total of 190 submissions were received for the conference, and the papers presented here were selected after careful and conscientious review, bearing in mind the breadth and depth of the research topics falling within the scope of digital and management innovation and resulting in an acceptance rate of 34%. Topics covered include digital transformation, supply chains, business models, and block chain, enterprises, banking, and sustainability, as well as policy in artificial intelligence, the gig economy, the post-epidemic era, green supply, citizenship behavior, human resource management, human relationships, agriculture, and environmental matters. Presenting original ideas and results of general significance and supported by clear reasoning, and compelling evidence and methods, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the management of digital data.

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses

Author : John Haltiwanger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645407X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses written by John Haltiwanger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.

Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level

Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enabling Innovation Measurement at the Sub-National Level is part of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovation Ecosystems Sector (IES) response to supporting member states wishing to develop their own complementary and mutually reinforcing sub-national innovation indices. Drawing on the Global Innovation Index (GII) framework WIPO is proceeding in two ways: 1) organizing workshops on the exchange of best practices, and 2) providing this study on sub-national innovation indices.

Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance

Author : Jorge Guzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Nowcasting and Placecasting Entrepreneurial Quality and Performance written by Jorge Guzman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a significant acquisition) as a function of start-up characteristics observable at or near the time of initial business registration (e.g., the firm name or filing for a trademark/patent). Our approach allows us to characterize entrepreneurial quality at an arbitrary level of geographic granularity (placecasting) and in advance of observing the ultimate growth outcomes associated with any cohort of start-ups (nowcasting). We implement this approach in Massachusetts from 1988-2014, yielding several key findings. First, consistent with Guzman and Stern (2015), we find that a small number of observable start-up characteristics allow us to distinguish the potential for a significant growth outcome: in an out-of-sample test, more than 75% of growth outcomes occur in the top 5% of our estimated quality distribution. Second, we propose two new economic statistics for the measurement of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a novel characterization of changes in entrepreneurial quality across space and time. For example, we are able to document changes in entrepreneurial quality leadership between the Route 128 corridor, Cambridge and Boston, as well as more granular assessments that allow us to distinguish variation in average entrepreneurial quality down to the level of individual addresses. Third, we find a high correlation between an index that depends only on information directly observable from business registration records (and so can be calculated on a real-time basis) with an index that allows for a two-year lag that allows the estimate of entrepreneurial quality to incorporate early milestones such as patent or trademark application or being featured in local newspapers. Finally, we find that the most significant "gap" between our index and the realized growth outcomes of a given cohort seem to be closely related to investment cycles: while the most successful cohort of Massachusetts start-ups was founded in 1995, the year 2000 cohort registered the highest estimated quality.

Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19

Author : Nezameddin Faghih
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031278860
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19 written by Nezameddin Faghih and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses the biopolitics and shock economy of COVID-19, emphasizing medical perspectives and the socioeconomic dynamics of the pandemic and the ensuing institutional responses. Written by an international, multidisciplinary group of academic and professional experts, chapters embrace a wide range of topics such as: medical perspectives on COVID-19; application of geospatial technology; infectivity, immunogenicity, and disease as important factors for adoption of relevant biopolitical measures; shock economy; COVID-19-induced transaction costs; social support and resilience of inhabitants of marginalized areas; business resilience factors; entrepreneurship; and digital transformation. Jointly addressing global examples of biopolitical governance and overarching macroeconomic effects of the pandemic, this volume will be of interest to academics across disciplines as well as policymakers and practitioners on the ground.

Studies in Income and Wealth

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Income and Wealth written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016

Author : Zoltan Acs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319638440
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016 written by Zoltan Acs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of the entrepreneurial process in 133 countries around the world, this book provides a tool to help policymakers and governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to address some of the economic challenges faced at the country level. In addition to the yearly data and comparisons, this edition also explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and other measures of development. Distinct from both output-based entrepreneurship indexes (i.e., new firm counts) and process-based indexes (i.e., comparisons of policies and regulations, the GEDI is designed to profile national systems of entrepreneurship. The Index does not simply count new firm registrations nor is it an exercise of policy benchmarking. It also does not focus exclusively on high-growth entrepreneurship; it considers the characteristics of entrepreneurship that enhance productivity, such as innovation, market expansion, globalization, and growth potential. Finally, recognizing that entrepreneurship has a different impact in different economic and institutional contexts, the GEDI combines individual-level data with data that describes national institutions, as well as economic and demographic structures, to provide an institutionally embedded view of the drivers of productive entrepreneurship.

Family Business and Regional Development

Author : Rodrigo Basco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429608993
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Family Business and Regional Development written by Rodrigo Basco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In particular, it explores two seldom studied questions. Firstly, what role do family firms play in regional development? Secondly, how do different spatial regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? Family Business and Regional Development presents a model of "spatial familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. Moreover, it approaches the juxtaposition between family business and regional studies to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, theories, and research methods between the two fields. Bringing together leading experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics, and economic geography, this book will be a valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography.

Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline

Author : Lorenzo Codogno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019286680X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline written by Lorenzo Codogno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws lessons on the importance of meritocracy for economic growth by analysing Italy's economic decline in the past few decades. Connections, rather than merit, are a long-standing feature of the Italian elites, even in the corporate sector. This became a significant problem when Italy's economy could no longer grow due to imitation, devaluation, and public debt, and faced the challenges of becoming a frontier knowledge-based open economy. This book uses international comparisons on social capital, governance, the role of the public sector, efficiency of the judiciary, education, gender and social inequality, social mobility, corporate standards, financial structures, and more to evaluate Italy's economic performance. It argues that the arrogance of mediocracy is more damaging than that of meritocracy. Italy experienced an economic miracle after the Second World War, and it is still an advanced economy and a member of the G7. Until the 1960s it seemed destined to catch up with the best-performing countries. Then the growth engine stopped, its debt skyrocketed, and Italy became a weaker member of the Eurozone. Many other countries in the world have heavy historical legacies and low social capital, and many others have to make the jump from imitation led growth to endogenous growth. The lessons drawn from studying Italy's case can therefore have important international applications.

The State of American Entrepreneurship

Author : Jorge Arturo Guzman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book The State of American Entrepreneurship written by Jorge Arturo Guzman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While official measures of business dynamism have seen a long-term decline, early-stage venture financing of new companies has reached levels not observed since the late 1990s, resulting in a sharp debate about the state of American entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating measures of entrepreneurial quality based on predictive analytics and comprehensive business registries. Our estimates suggest that the probability of a significant growth outcome (either an IPO or high-value acquisition) is highly skewed and predicted by observables at or near the time of business registration: 69% of realized growth events are in the top 5% of our estimated growth distribution. This high level of skewness motivates the development of three new economic statistics that simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI, measuring the growth potential of firms founded within a given region and time period) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Index (REAI, measuring the performance of a region over time in realizing the potential of firms founded there). We use these statistics to establish several new findings about the history and state of US entrepreneurship using data for 15 states (covering 51% of the overall US economy) from 1988 through 2014. First, in contrast the secular decline in the aggregate quantity of entrepreneurship observed in series such as the Business Dynamic Statistics (BDS), the growth potential of start-up companies (RECPI relative to GDP) has followed a cyclical pattern that seems sensitive to the capital market environment and overall economic conditions. Second, while the peak value of RECPI is recorded in 2000, the level during the first decade during this century was actually higher than the late 1980s and first half of the 1990s, and also has experienced a sharp upward swing beginning in 2010. Even after controlling for changes in the overall size of the economy, the second highest level of entrepreneurial growth potential is registered in 2014. Third, the likelihood of start-up firms for a given quality level to realize their potential (REAI) declined sharply in the late 1990s, and did not recover through 2008. These findings suggest that divergent assessments of the state of American entrepreneurship can potentially be reconciled by explicitly adopting a quantitative approach to the measurement of entrepreneurial quality.

Entrepreneurship Viability Index

Author : Nezameddin Faghih
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030546446
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship Viability Index written by Nezameddin Faghih and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the Entrepreneurship Viability Index (EVI) as a focal point to define other novel indices. It also introduces readers to new concepts and metrics of entrepreneurship to help measure the lifespan of entrepreneurial activities and quantify the capabilities of entrepreneurs as well as the share of efficient businesses at the country level. Using a variety of mathematical models and providing details for each category of business, EVI is measured as the ratio of the ‘rate of entrepreneurial activities’ to the ‘rate of exit from the business’, reflecting the sustainability, durability, business success, and status of entrepreneurial activities in a country. These metrics offer a unique opportunity for researchers and policymakers to assess the status of efficient entrepreneurial activities, which influence the economy, and to study economic resistance in the event of economic shocks or recessions. The book provides valuable information on various key concepts in entrepreneurship, such as the interaction of individual and environmental factors, motivation and entrepreneurial activities, which allow the prediction of entrepreneurship treatment across countries. This in turn plays a significant role in identifying the factors that secure or threaten a country’s business sector. The book helps readers, researchers, policymakers, lenders, "angel investors" and anyone with a financial interest in entrepreneurial businesses to understand how even more viable businesses could be created than is the case today, and to recognize new categories of budding entrepreneurs.

Social Sector Development and Governance

Author : Ramesh Chandra Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000892301
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Social Sector Development and Governance written by Ramesh Chandra Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world. Economic development in the true sense depends on the development of different social sectors like education, healthcare, gender equality, etc., as well as economic factors. Good governance makes the sectors perform well on the one hand, and helps in economic growth and development on the other. Conversely, bad or weak governance in the form of corruption and low effectiveness of the governments, may lead to poor performance of the sectors, and low growth and backwardness of the economies. This book explores the associations between different social sectors’ performances with quality of governance, and growth and development of different economies and groups in detail and establishes theoretical and empirical examinations for the individual economies and groups from the different corners of the globe with the help of new theories and latest data. This book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Political Studies, Public Finance, International Relations, Social Sciences as well as policy makers and think tanks.

The Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX)

Author : Zoltán J. Ács
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1601982461
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) written by Zoltán J. Ács and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Entrepreneurship Index contributes to our understanding of economic development by constructing an index (GEINDEX) that examines the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measure of development.

ICEBE 2023

Author : Ernie Hendrawaty
Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN 13 : 1631904329
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book ICEBE 2023 written by Ernie Hendrawaty and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6th International Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship Conference was held on September 13-14, 2023, in Lampung, Indonesia. Our theme was "Echoing the Financial and Digital Transformation to Support Inclusive Economic Growth". The process of selecting articles uses a double-blind review to ensure the quality of the papers. Reviewers were not allowed to know the authors' identities. The reviewers come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and the Philippines. The contributions of the ICEBE conference to academia and society are as follows: provide knowledge and skills to participants on how to do quality research and community service; provide knowledge and skills to participants on how to publish research and community service results in reputable international journal publications; disseminate the research and community service results that the participants have carried out; review the latest research issues in economics and business, especially those related to sustainable development.

Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2018

Author : Zoltán J. Ács
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030032784
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2018 written by Zoltán J. Ács and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the world by combining individual data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2018 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of entrepreneurial process from 137 countries world-wide, this book provides a rich understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. The novelty of the GEDI 2018 edition is the examination of the connection between the GEDI score and the computed total factor productivity (TFP) values. The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index is an annual index (composite indicator) that measures the health of the entrepreneurship ecosystems in a given country. The authors have identified 14 components (or pillars) that are important for the health of entrepreneurial ecosystems, identified data to capture each , and used this data to calculate three levels of scores for a given country: the overall GEDI score, scores for Individuals and Institutions, and pillar level scores (which measure the quality of each of the 14 components).

Global Entrepreneurship Index 2017

Author : Zoltan Acs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541266889
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Global Entrepreneurship Index 2017 written by Zoltan Acs and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year's Global Entrepreneurship Index features an exploration of digital entrepreneurship ecosystems.The Global Entrepreneurship Index both captures the context features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the measurement of development. Building on recent advances in entrepreneurship and economic development, the authors have created an index that offers a measure of the quality of the business formation process in 137 countries. The authors expertly capture the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial abilities and entrepreneurial aspirations. The data and their contribution to the business formation process are supported by three decades of research into entrepreneurship across a host of countries. The unique index construction of individual and institutional measures integrates 31 variables from various data sources into 14 pillars, three sub-indexes and a 'super index'. The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development appears to be more or less mildly S-shaped. The findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries illustrating a U-shaped or L-shaped relationship to more complex measures, which are positively related to development. The model has important implications for development policy. This unique book will be invaluable for researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurs keen to expand their understanding of entrepreneurship and development.