sociability of educational spaces is crucial to the quality of education because a major part of learning takes place through attending public spaces, acting in spaces, social interaction with peers, and collective life in public spaces. sociability provides for the users’ social needs. the present study seeks to explore the development of sociability in educational spaces through increasing op...

I am deeply conscious of the honour you have done me in inviting me to give this, the first Founders’ Lecture. I have no doubt that your choice was influenced by the fact that of the three surviving Founding Fathers-Sir Thomas Fairbank, Mr Arthur Rocyn Jones and myself-it fell to my lot to be the first Honorary Secretary of the young Association launched forty years ago. The story of the growth...

The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital. This pa...