This paper aims to provide insights into the role of ‘Entrepreneurial Behaviour’ in stimulating the transition of the Built Environment from a linear economic model to a Circular Economy. Implementation of the circular principles is riddled with regulatory, cultural, financial, and other sector-specific barriers that stall transition efforts and de...
We examine the role of knowledge spillovers in fostering regional new firm formation in 230 NACE-4 manufacturing industries and 980 NUTS-3 regions in Europe. We find that regionally embedded knowledge stocks represented by patents have a positive association with new firm formation, but that knowledge protection and appropriation strategies of incu...
Published in SN Social Sciences
Migration often involves younger individuals departing home for another location to earn money. This study’s contribution is that it show how migrants, who are part of Niger’s youth majority, desire to be part of its economy. However, they lack formal background with business and social networks, which are both pivotal components for future success...
The private sector plays a crucial role in promoting the sustainable development. It is generally accepted that firms creates wealth, generates jobs and thus contributes to improving the living conditions of populations; while being able to increasingly ensure the preservation of natural resources, biodiversity and the climate and promoting the ema...
Crowdfunding is an alternative funding mechanism whereby innovators can access funding for their projects using a variety of “payback” options to investors – from traditional rewards such as equity, dividends and repayments with interest to non-monetary rewards such as physical or digital rewards. It has been defined by Schwienbacher and Larralde (...
To innovate requires people. People that know how to innovate. For engineers, it is not always easy to do that. They know a lot about technology (feasibility) but could lack knowledge about the business (viability) and the market (desirability). This report aims to help engineers create a more innovative mindset and thereby boost the innovation out...
Published in European Business Organization Law Review
This paper investigates the implications of the fair value protections contemplated by the standard corporate contract (i.e., the standard contract form for which corporate law provides) for the entrepreneur–venture capitalist relationship, focusing, in particular, on unavoidable value-destroying trade sales. First, it demonstrates that the typical...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundSocial enterprises are organizations created to address social problems that use business models to sustain themselves financially. Social enterprises can help increase access to primary health care in low resource settings. Research on social enterprises in health care have focused either on high-income countries, or on secondary and ter...
Biogas is a sustainable and circular technology with a large potential to positively impact developing nations such as Ethiopia. However, international endeavors that initiate or install such technologies in developing nations often fade over time or even fail. This thesis evaluates what the common barriers and drivers of entrepreneurs of such edea...
Abstract Purpose: The role that incubators play in business performance is a topic that has been discussed in the literature. They help to create the necessary conditions for the development of entrepreneurship and business innovation, but studies on their real contribution are lacking, especially in contexts such as the Portuguese one. Business in...
