Recently, The Wall Street Journal proclaimed the “War for Internet Talent” among companies in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. At the same time, talented employees become entrepreneurial and establish their own startups. We aim to provide evidence that startup performance is not based exclusively on access to talent, in the sense of individual human capital, but is als...

BACKGROUND The Health through Sport conceptual model links sport participation with physical, social and psychological outcomes and stresses the need for more understanding between these outcomes. The present study aims to uncover how sport participation, physical activity, social capital and mental health are interrelated by examining these outcomes in one model. METHODS A cross-sectional su...

We contribute to the literature on optimal growth in two-sector models by solving a Ramsey problem with a concave utility function. The unique possible steady-state is independent of initial conditions and of the instantaneous utility function, but not of the discount rate, and is characterized by a wage-rental ratio depending solely on the technology of the capital sector. For an initially low...

cooperatives, established through a unification of human and economic capital within their members can lead to strengthening of the social capital. the main purpose of this descriptive – correlational research was to investigate the influence of membership in production cooperatives on the level of social capital. the statistical population for the study consisted of: poultry producers in coope...

The realization of sustainable development depends on the efficient use of energy resources. Energy consumption productivity and efficiency are among important indices that play a critical role in explaining the behavior of energy consumption structure of different economic sectors, which in turn, plays a key role in policy making. From among economic sectors, the agriculture sector, as an impo...

Online communities can have positive effects onsocial capital and ultimately on organisational performance. Theformer is of great importance to non-profit organisations in thethird sector, for which it is a key component of their success.This paper starts by defining a community. It then discusses theimportance and potential of virtual communities of practice forthe thir...

Venture Capital (VC) plays an important role in the commercialisation of innovation. Sectors like information and communication technologies and biotech account for two-thirds of all VC investments. Little attention has been paid to understanding how the venture capital market extends to new industries. Based on a survey of European energy technology VCs, we discuss the factors determining the ...

background: because of the close relationship between economic growth and welfare of the societies many economists have been seeking to identify the sources of economic growth. human capital through enhancing workforce skills and quality, increases the amount of workforce income which consequently leads to economic growth. methods: this study is based on data from the social accounting matrix o...

This work provides an explanation for the puzzling trade-off between labor productivity and capital accumulation, occurred in Italian energy sector from the late 1980s onwards. By using a vector autoregressive model, we decompose labor productivity into technological and non technological shocks. We find that: (1) labor productivity responds positively to technological shocks, leading to a tran...