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Economics And Politics Of Alternative Institutional Reforms

This paper compares the economic consequences and political feasibility of reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry deregulation and improving contractual enforcement legal reform. Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of firms entrepreneurship and the average quality of management meritocracy. Legal reform also reduces financial constraints on entry, but...

Tags: Regulations, London School of Economics, entrepreneurship, deregulation, barrier, financial

White papers 2007-01-01

What Is Social Entrepreneurship Really About?

Social entrepreneurship is a growth area, both in practice and in academic circles. Its value is generally assumed to be the contribution that social entrepreneurs can make to solving pressing and intractable social problems. It is argued here that this is an overly deterministic and simplistic way of understanding the...

Tags: London School of Economics, entrepreneurship

White papers 2006-11-08

Entrepreneurship And Success In e-Business

The dotcom crash presented new challenges to successful business and decision-making in e-entrepreneurship, the implications of which can be better understood by looking at the changing meanings of expert knowledge and of business community. This is one of the main findings of a case study on e-entrepreneurship in the Greater...

Tags: London School of Economics, dot-com, entrepreneurship, decision-making, small business, e-business

White papers 2003-09-30

Additional Resources

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2007 Report: Entrepreneurship Is Going Global

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Michael Chmura of Babson College, +1-781-239-4549; orKate Watkins of the London Business School, +44 (0) 20 7000 7251 WELLESLEY, Mass. Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Encouragingglobal entrepreneurship is vital to improving economic growthworldwide according to the ninth annual Global EntrepreneurshipMonitor GEM 2007 Global Report. In high-income...

Articles 2008-01-18

Laws and Customs: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Gender During Economic Transition.(Book review)

Laws and Customs: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Gender During Economic Transition Ruta Aidis School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College: London, 2004, 171pp, plus appendix. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100194 This book seeks to answer these questions: How is it that entrepreneurship...

Articles 2007-06-01

DIARY

Gordon Brown is keen for universities to get close to industry - and some universities are obliging. The latest, the London School of Economics LSE, has done a deal right with Abbey, part of the Santander Group, which will see the finance house giving scholarships, travel research awards and training...

Articles 2007-05-03

GLobal Entrepreneurship Monitor - UK Report.

M2 PRESSWIRE-6 March 2007-London Business School: GLobal Entrepreneurship Monitor - UK ReportC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06032007 UK ENTREPRENEURS ARE ROBUST AGAINST GLOBAL DECLINE 2006 GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONITOR SHOWS UK ENTREPRENEURS BATTLING TREND OF DECLINE TO REMAIN STEADY; TRAINING AND...

Articles 2007-03-06

University of San Francisco Brings Premier Venture Capitalists Together to Judge 4th Annual International Business Plan Competition

SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of San Francisco USF Entrepreneurship Program is hosting the 4th Annual USF International Business Plan Competition on March 23-25, 2006. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the most prominent venture capital firms in the world, and this competition is regarded by both industry...

Articles 2006-03-15

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): The definitive study of entrepreneurship in 2005; Innovative' entrepreneurs drive economic growth; Entrepreneurs in middle income countries play catch-up, tap into new technologies.

M2 PRESSWIRE-11 January 2006-London Business School: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM: The definitive study of entrepreneurship in 2005; Innovative' entrepreneurs drive economic growth; Entrepreneurs in middle income countries play catch-up, tap into new technologiesC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12012006 Wellesley, MA, and...

Articles 2006-01-11

References.(Nascent Entrepreneurship: Empirical Studies and Developments)

[1] Z. J. Acs, P. Arenius, M. Hay, and M. Minniti, GEM 2004 Executive Report, Babson College/London Business School, Boston and London, 2005. [2] Z. J. Acs and A. Varga, "Entrepreneurship, agglomeration and technological change," Small Business Economics, vol. 24, pp. 323-334,...

Articles 2006-01-01

'Apprentice' Runner-Up Kwame Jackson, Makes History as First African American To Speak at The London School of Economics Feb. 15th.

WASHINGTON, February 14 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Television star Kwame Jackson -- the first runner-up from the inaugural season of NBC's "The Apprentice" -- will be the distinguished guest speaker Tuesday, Feb. 15th at the prestigious London School of Economics and Political Science...

Articles 2005-02-14

Babson Professor Paul Reynolds Receives FSF-NUTEK Award for Research Concerning Global Entrepreneurship.

Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Feb. 2 AScribe Newswire -- The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research FSF and the Swedish Board of Industrial and Technical Development NUTEK has given the 2004 FSF-NUTEK Award to Professor Paul D. Reynolds, Professor of Entrepreneurship...

Articles 2004-02-02

Entrepreneurs run out of puff.

Nov 14, 2002 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) The level of entrepreneurial activity is falling in Australia. According to Babson College in the US and the London Business School, a survey of start-up companies in 37 countries showed that Australia slipped from the...

Articles 2002-11-14

Multimedia Available: Global Entrepreneurial Activity Plunged 25 Percent Last Year

Business Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Nov. 13) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Audio, Logos, Text News Releases --BUSINESS WIRE Global entrepreneurial activity plunged 25 percent last year reflecting a universal decline in national economic growth. Interest...

Articles 2002-11-13

Global Entrepreneurial Activity Plunged 25 Percent Last Year

Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available KANSAS CITY, Mo.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 13, 2002 Pace of U.S. Startup Activity Leveled Off Signaling Halt to Decline, According to Study Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, Babson College and London Business School ...

Articles 2002-11-13

Notices.

THE 22ND UNITED, KINGDOM National Small Firms Policy and Research Conference will be held in Leeds, England, on November 17-19, 1999, organised by Leeds Metropolitan University Business School, on the theme of Small Firms: European Strategies, Growth and Development. A separate Doctoral Conference will be held...

Articles 1999-10-01

Entrepreneurs

IS YOUR COUNTRY'S STAGnant economy getting you down? Try starting a new business. That's the advice from the new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM study conducted by the London Business School and Babson College. Entrepreneurship is an important factor in the economic well-being of a country, according to the study,...

Articles 1999-09-01

MBA: Being your own Master

Acquiring an MBA can accelerate one's ascent up the corporate ladder. It can also foster the entrepreneurial spirit and lead to the creation of new businesses. In British business schools the study of entrepreneurship is an increasingly fashionable option. Growing numbers of MBA students elect to study...

Articles 1998-10-22

Foundations of Corporate Success. (book reviews)

John Kay (1995), Oxford University Press, pp416, paperback edition 11.99[pounds]. THE HARDBACK EDITION OF Foundations of Corporate Success was first published in 1993 to general acclaim. It is an intelligently written book, worth writing. In paperback it has the potential to reach a wider ...

Articles 1995-10-01