Delving into social entrepreneurship in universities: is it legitimate yet?

Social Entrepreneurship : whose responsibility is it anyway ? 21 November 2001 The false premises of Social Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship as a legitimate field of knowledge.

Entrepreneurship as a research topic has been approached from disciplines such as economics, sociology or psychology. After justifying its study, we define the domain of the field, highlighting what has currently become its dominant paradigm, the process of the discovery, assessment and exploitation of opportunities. We then describe the main perspectives and offer an integrated conceptual fram...

Delving into BioMEMS.

Is It Legitimate Statistics or Is It Sexism: Why Discrimination Is Not Rational

While in the ideal world, everyone should have the same chance to succeed in a given profession, in reality, often the probability of success is different for people of different gender and/or ethnicity. For example, in the US, the probability of a female undergraduate student in computer science to get a PhD is lower than a similar probability for a male student. At first glance, it may seem t...

Delving into somatic variation in sporadic melanoma.

Melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, has increased in incidence more rapidly than any other cancer. The completion of the human genome project and advancements in genomics technologies has allowed us to investigate genetic alterations of melanoma at a scale and depth that is unprecedented. Here, we survey the history of the different approaches taken to understand the genomics of ...