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Tourism and entrepreneurship have progressed on different paths and rarely have any major crossover occurred in each of their literatures to cross-fertilize the development of the subject areas. The tourism industry is often said to be less innovative than other industries. In order to make the organization more entrepreneur friendly and therefore innovative, driving and restricting factors need to be identified, improved and reinforced. This paper presents the identification of structural restricting and driving factors of development of Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) in organization. The studied organization is one of the transportation companies in Iran. A questionnaire was designed according to the Likert Scale. The sampling has been done through census among 100 managers of the studied organization. By using SPSS software and analyzing the outcome of the questionnaires, restricting and driving factors are recognized. This study concludes that five factors such as information resource system, organizational structure, organizational strategy, task methodology, and process and physical opportunities are driving factors. The research and development system, control and supervisionary system, wage and salary system, finance and budget system and human resource management are counted as restricting factors.

Keywords: Tourism Management, Organizational entrepreneurship, Restricting factors, Driving factor.
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This paper presents the main findings exacted from a quantitative and qualitative investigation into mapping the Brazilian startup entrepreneurial ecosystem. The analysis was set up as of the six entrepreneurship determinant categories defined by the Organization of Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), to wit: the regulatory framework; market conditions; access to finance; the creation and diffusion of knowledge; entrepreneurial capabilities; and entrepreneurship culture. The study involved gathering quantitative data from secondary bases underlying each one of the six pillars and interviewing Brazilian representatives of the determinants indicated above, to proceed to understand which development stage Brazil is in as concerns encouraging entrepreneurial practice and the favorability of the entrepreneurial ambiance in the country.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship. Startup. Ecosystem. Determinants. OECD.
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In this paper, bioethanol and fruit processing clusters in Uganda were taken as sectoral innovation systems, and enabling conditions and barriers to their growth analysed from a technoscientific and innovation systems perspective. Active participation of entrepreneurial university scientists in the clustering process appears to be an enabling factor. Absence of goals and incentives for investing in the cluster areas and for driving formation of markets for cluster products is a major barrier. Adopting more inclusive innovation policies, and having in place good community engagement strategies, could help overcome the barriers and expand opportunities for clusters in low resource settings to grow and become competitive.

Keywords: bioethanol, cluster, fruit processing, innovation system, Uganda.
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New products are a source of firms’ competitive advantage. Research on R&D investments, processes and performance has majorly been at the level of analysis of organizations. In this research, we theorize and build theoretical arguments on managerial cognition in R&D projects and impact on performance within firms at an individual level entrepreneurial decision-making and resource utilization processes. We bridge behavioral-decision with cognitive perspective in building propositions on R&D processes. We examine corporate R&D managers, under resource constraints and high uncertainty, apply cognitive processes to take decisions and how it affects performance. We argue that cognitive processes are moderated by political skills of R&D manager and how it affects performance. This research also builds our understanding of managerial cognition under uncertainty within large organizations.

Keywords: management of innovation, R&D, emerging economies, resource constraints
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Today, innovation is a receipt for most of the problems the firms are facing. Today, firms can’t develop innovations merely contenting themselves with their own effortful struggles. In addition to such initiative, they should cooperate with other actors. Cooperating with other actors outside the firm opens the innovation process. Open innovation has lots of advantages which can be categorised in two main groups : increasing revenues, and decreasing costs. The main idea in open innovation strenghtens the relations with external environment by increasing knowledge and technology inflows and outflows. However, dealing with the boundaries of the firm, there are barriers related with knowledge and technology flows. This research aims to explain evolution of open innovation, partnerships as main actors in knowledge and technology outflows, and intellectual property as the concept that protects knolwedge flows. external environment of the firm.

Keywords: Open innovation, Partnerships, Intellectual Property, University,
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Knowledge is an important value that adds economic power to his/her owner and foundation of the prosperity. Today, economy that takes foundation from knowledge is known as knowledge economy and people who live in society are known as knowledge society. Therefore, this study aims at contributing people who want to constitute knowledge economy works in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to make comprehensible of the economic fact and situations in the framework of knowledge economy. In this study, it is determined that the factors, which influence the establishment of competitive advantage in knowledge economies, including Turkey, OECD countries and neighbors knowledge levels were analyzed by using “knowledge mapping method”. Then, information level of countries were evaluated by comparing the results of OECD Science and Technology Indicators. According to results, Turkey should increase knowledge works in this area.

Keywords: Knowledge, Knowledge Mapping, OECD, Knowledge Level
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The 11th Globelics Conference (Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems) was held at Middle East Technical University (METU), September 11-13, 2013. It was organised by METU Science and Technology Policies Research Centre (TEKPOL), Centre for Competition Research of Yıldırım Beyazıt University (REKMER) and Ankara Development Agency. ....

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