In the relevant literature, there has been a lack of discussion to focus particularly on the relationship between entrepreneurship and international trade. It is more restricted when one intends to seek an interaction between international trade and the indexes of the 3A approach of entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial attitude, activities and aspirations which are collected from Global ...

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and human capital there is a posit...

Politicians expend a great deal of eff ort on attempting to reduce unemployment and stimulate economic growth. Policy programs specifi cally intended to create additional employment can be found at the regional, national, and supranational levels. Historically, such measures focused on the performance of large incumbent fi rms and more or less ignored the role that new businesses play in econom...

Biographical notes: Poh Kam Wong is currently Associate Professor, Business School and Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore. He obtained two BS degrees, an MS and a PhD from MIT. He has published in numerous international journals on innovation strategy/policy and technology entrepreneurship, including Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing, Informati...

in the beginning of the 1980s, the organizational entrepreneurship was considered a factor which could affect the output of the small, medium and big organizations and improve the growth and innovation of an organization.  nowadays, large numbers of organizations exploit the entrepreneurship as a procedure to achieve long-term competitive advantages. thus, it is of great importance to identify ...

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive appro...

The institutional environment allows innovators and entrepreneurs to take calculated economic risks. In the U.S, innovation originates from education and research, while competition is made possible by a cluster of laws and financial regulatory institutions. Creative education, innovative research, legal institutions and financial regulations function together to enable a highly dynamic and inn...