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Are you an Innovator /entrepreneur? Do you want to inspire others?
May 21, 2015 Editor 0
Innovation Africa is ten years old this year. To celebrate our anniversary we are compiling a book on African innovators and Entrepreneurs. Are you an Innovator /entrepreneur? Do you want to inspire others? Through our ten years, we have seen spectacular developments in ICTs, science and business across Africa. We have reported many of these […]
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Initiating nascent entrepreneurial activities
March 2, 2015 Editor Comments Off on Initiating nascent entrepreneurial activities
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 27-49, March 2015. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effect of two individual-level resources, one subjective and the other objective, and their interaction in influencing the business entry decision. By distinguishing perceived ability from actual ability and […]
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Striking Gold with Women Entrepreneurs
January 2, 2015 Editor Comments Off on Striking Gold with Women Entrepreneurs
Women don’t know how to manage Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Women can only run retail or services businesses. Women-led businesses don’t create jobs. Women don’t really want to grow their businesses – it’s just a hobby for them. How many times have we heard these and similar sentiments? There are indeed far fewer businesses […]
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Logic alone does not lead to innovation
December 1, 2014 Editor 0
Logic alone does not confer a competitive advantage and companies must increase collaboration to capture latent potential innovations that will improve the business, says entrepreneurial and innovation consultant Frans Johansson. Expertise is not a sufficient differentiator in the rapidly and continuously changing business landscape because logical, incremental innovations will not be able to respond to […]
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Collaborative entrepreneurship and the fostering of entrepreneurialism in developing countries
September 19, 2014 Editor Comments Off on Collaborative entrepreneurship and the fostering of entrepreneurialism in developing countries
Collaborative entrepreneurship and the fostering of entrepreneurialism in developing countries Vanessa Ratten International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2014) pp. 137 – 149 The purpose of this paper is to consider collaborative entrepreneurship and its relevance to entrepreneurialism in developing countries. The paper provides some background to the role of […]
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Impact of Demographic Factors on Technological Orientations of BOP Entrepreneurs in Ghana
September 5, 2014 Editor 0
International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Ahead of Print. The study explores relationship between technological orientations and demographics of bottom of the pyramid (BOP) entrepreneurs in Ghana. The study reviewed literature on the BOP concept. Based on the reviewed literature, hypotheses were developed for testing. Data was collected from 287 micro-entrepreneurs using a structured […]
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