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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Online technologies are required for accessing essential services, such as healthcare, transportation, and education. Challenges to online technology access can prevent resource‐constrained communities from connecting to these services. Human intermediaries who act in the middle space between technology and the person using the technology may ...
Marcy G. Antonio +4 more
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The ETH Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab: Supporting Young Entrepreneurs
CHIMIA, 2020 For the successful launch and sustainable growth of innovative technologies into business concepts, extensive knowledge and a wide variety of tools are needed. The ETH ieLab provides exactly the right framework and support for this.
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Ambitious entrepreneurship, high-growth firms and macroeconomic growth [PDF]
We examine the impact of ambitious entrepreneurship (entrepreneurs expecting to grow their firm) and high-growth firms (firms that have actually realized high growth rates) on subsequent macroeconomic growth in a sample of high and low-income countries ...
André van Stel +3 more
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A sustainable business ecosystem: a case study demonstrating biochar's potential
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract The need for renewable, climate‐friendly resources has become urgent as legislators worldwide have sought to find ways to cut emissions while ensuring resource security for consumers. The use of biochar could help to achieve these goals. This study examines the current state of commercial biochar production and the maturity of the related ...
Kivijakola Juuso +4 more
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YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS - PROMOTERS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
Strategii Manageriale, 2014 Entrepreneurship in Romania is no longer an unfamiliar concept, but we can assert that it is a journey full of obstacles. Bureaucracy, the lack of fiscal predictability as well as the absence of an entrepreneurial culture often lead entrepreneurs to ...
Florentina-Georgiana, COJOCARU
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Business Startup and Cause Marketing in the Running Apparel Industry [PDF]
, 2014 Entrepreneurship has been the backbone of the American economy since the penning of the Declaration of Independence. Small businesses help the United States prosper and help create jobs for the American people.
Barker, Zachary
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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Young entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Children's Geographies, 2017 Youth unemployment is a world-wide problem, particularly evident in developing countries, where even when economies grow and education systems expand, these are not matched by employment opportunit...
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Closing the generational start-up gap [PDF]
, 2012 The promotion of youth entrepreneurship and self-employment has been identified as an important strand of policies to reduce youth unemployment.
Hart, Mark +2 more
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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