Local benevolent property development entrepreneurs in small town regeneration

The Emergence of Local Entrepreneurs in Palau

Palau, located in the Western Caroline Islands, is more prosperous than its neighboring countries and bears the highest GDP per capita in Micronesia. Except for foreign aid forming the majority of their income, Palauans are known for their success in adopting a modern economy. Especially compared to their Yapese neighbors, Palauans are more aggressive in their approach in dealing with foreign i...

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Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Bricolage of Intellectual Property Discourses

Commercial software firms are increasingly becoming involved with open source communities. In this research-in-progress paper I briefly analysed a single firm case that demonstrates how an institutional entrepreneur mixes in an innovative way different discourses in an attempt to legitimise a new mode for developing software applying both open and closed source codes. The institutional entrepre...

Landscaping State Modeling in a Small Town

Submitted: Sep 29, 2013; Accepted: Nov 2, 2013; Published: Nov 8, 2013 Abstract: The article describes a model and forecasting algorithm of landscaping state in a small town for a specified period of time. The model describes the stages of tree growth milestones from planting of saplings to plant loss. The theory of probabilistic finite-state automatons is used to form the model. Expert evaluat...

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