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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether social innovation has taken root in the last two decades in the social economy sector of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) as a key enterprise development factor in the current post-crisis environment derived from successive financial, health and geopolitical crises. For this, it is conceptually defined, firstly, what is understood by social innovation and its basic dimensions, reflecting on the extent to which the social economy sector can be considered as socially innovative. After that, the methodology and the main results of a study carried out through a review of specialized literature and a qualitative analysis through in-depth interviews with a sample of 21 heads of social enterprise, institutions or corporate entities linked to the sector in Asturias are presented. These results show how, indeed, the principles of social innovation are beginning to be adopted by the sector, albeit in an incipient way as a consequence of different weaknesses associated with its degree of entrepreneurship, organizational structure and development strategy. The paper ends by suggesting a series of recommendations that could contribute to the promotion of the sector as a whole and of the enterprises that make it up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present paper offers the first results of a research on entrepreneurial management's innovation and practices, carried out in a group of enterprises in Cuba's capital city having satisfactory results in their innovation management in the last years. The paper includes some basic ideas on innovation; an explanation of the approach that Cuba follows at present aimed at evaluating innovation's management; an analysis of the leading results achieved in studied enterprises, and an assessment on certain practices considered indicative for innovation. Finally, some suggestions are presented in order to improve the enterprise's performance as to its management and its relationship with the other areas involved in the management results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Externado University of Colombia shares the 59th edition of its Con-Texto Magazine, which includes four papers on topics related to law and economics. The first article analyzes anticompetitive behaviors in the digital era, comparing Colombian regulation with that of the European Union and the United States. The second article examines justice policy in Colombia and its digital component. The third article analyzes the Brazilian regulation of the extrajudicial reorganization process of companies. The last article reviews the provisions of the Entrepreneurship Law in relation to autonomous assets in Colombia. The magazine seeks to be a resource for discussions on law and economics. [Extracted from the article]

In congresses VI and VII of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), important documents that guide the work of Cuban enterprises for the future years were approved. To identify the necessary knowledge and skills for the management of enterprises in this context, the author analyzed three sources: the trends of contemporary management at the international level; the main statements of the documents approved in these congresses that have an impact on the management of the companies; finally, the information on management skills with more weaknesses, identified in courses and workshops given to groups of Cuban entrepreneurs. The paper presents a summary of the main aspects that the author proposes that are part of the knowledge and skills systems that Cuban entrepreneurs must develop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It varied the number of works dealing with this topic and generally confusion is caused by the number of systems and the arbitrary use of the names tliajt are identified, which has caused describing under the same name different systems or the same system various labels. Therefore in this paper we reduce the theme of the original domain to the next question: Who originally owned mineral deposits? Without pretend clarify the picture explaining each of the systems because it would lead to an investigation of historical character that is not our goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a dearth of economic literature that has focused on immigrants in Chile and their entrepreneurship. This is despite evidence that suggests immigrants are proportionally more likely to engage in entrepreneurial activities than local inhabitants. The objective of this paper is to explore the factors that influence individual's to engage in entrepreneurial activities among immigrants from South America in Chile. A rare event logit model was used to assess the factors that are likely to impact on entrepreneurial decision making processes. Results indicate that: length of residence, legal status on entry into the country, educational level and previous entrepreneurial experience influence the likelihood of entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study of Motivations that make more productives workers en companies has broaden to entrepreneurship area, which is a theme of great economic and academic interest. Based on motivational theories from Psychology, entrepreneurship researchers have done adaptations seeking major understanding of reasons that lead individuals to start and manage his own enterprises. Objective of this paper is showing the way how theoretical body of entrepreneur's motivation has developed, taking into account, both human motivation theories and categories used to classify them. At the end a model is proposed based on described theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a detailed examination of a successful business model innovation that allowed the Kiluva Group, a dietary products company from Spain, to survive a severe crisis and subsequently become a high-growth company. In spite of operating in a mature market with an undifferentiated product, it outperformed all the competitors and achieved a CAGR in revenues of nearly 40% over 10 years. From a dynamic perspective, we focus on the role of trial-and-error learning that made this business model innovation possible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Firm creation is used by universities not only to transfer technology to society but also to contribute to the development of the regional economy. However, due to the relatively recent character of the phenomenon of the university spin-offs, the empirical studies are not plentiful on the topic. From a resource based view, this paper analyses what universities' resources have an influence on the spin-off creation. We find that financial and institutional resources are significantly positively associated with university entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to identify the common operating characteristics of the Technological Centres in the Mondragon group. These Centres are one of the key factors upon which the group's industrial cooperatives have been able to create new, value-added jobs. The methodology used is based on the analysis of two theoretical models for economic development: one is open research for innovation as distinct from closed research, and, the other is the triple helix model for regional development. After analyzing in detail the twelve Technological Centres, four groups with common characteristics emerge and these are described in detail. Finally, the characteristics are reviewed at the Technology Centre Ikerlan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the pending assignments of Sonora's economy, is to reach an industrialization stage from the use of its raw materials, its own institutional efforts and its working and entrepreneurial classes, that is, from its endogenous potentialities. This paper describes and discusses the historical itinerary of the industrialization process of Sonora, based on the study of the different strategies undertaken by the governments, especially those from 1961 to 1967. This period is considered as the main institutional effort of internal bases to guide Sonora towards an industrial alternative, which even though its goodnesses, has succumbed before the legitimization of the 'maquiladora' project. It is argued that the governmental initiatives have been restricted by the existence of an entrepreneurial class, with little or none industrial vision. In this sense, the intention of giving to the state an industrial identity is into the hands of foreign capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the 1990s the Colombian government began to implement laws to encourage the emergence of agencies and programs to support the creation of new business. Today there are general and specific norms as laws and instruments unknown by many people. This paper presents the findings of researches about entrepreneurial activity regulation in Colombia as well as instruments of support used. We use the institutional economic theory, specifically North (1990). The information is collected from 30 interviews and official documents. In general, the existent regulation in addition to being scattered is unclear and unspecific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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