Calling all social entrepreneurs

Integrating social entrepreneurs into the "health for all" formula.

This month’s theme “Knowledge translation in global health” offers an opportunity to highlight the overlooked but dramatic impact of social entrepreneurs in the health sector and to detail ways in which their knowledge, innovations and enterprise can add strength and utility to systems ripe for change. The global health sector and its corporate, academic, governmental and philanthropic partners...

Calling all leaders.

ing leaders to create a forum to address the enormous challenges that face the profession now, and will continue to do so over the next several years. Many in the profession have been addressing these challenges, typically within the confines of the organizations that employ them. There has been no focused forum where nurse leaders themselves have an intellectual space for dialogue and planning...

Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?

Calling All Agents, Where Are You?

We believe the next step in the application of agent technology to the Internet is the massive population of the Internet with software agents functioning in a wide range of capacities: information ltering, information brokering, commerce, negotiation, and so on. In such an environment, a means to eeectively locate relevant agents for relevant tasks is indispensable. In this paper, we examine i...

Gender Differences Among Social vs. Business Entrepreneurs

A rapidly growing body of research attests to the interest in women's entrepreneurship (e.g. Boyd, 2005; Bruni, Gheradi, & Poggio, 2004; Brush, Carter, Gatewood, Greene & Hart, 2006; Lerner & Pines, 2011; Mulholland, 1996; Pines, 2002; Pines & Schwartz, 2008). This interest is relatively recent (Humbert, Drew & Kelan, 2009). As Carter and Shaw (2006) have noted, research on entrepreneurship has...