Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Development: A Perspective Based on Intellectual Capital

Cabrita, Maria Rosário; Cabrita, Cristina; Matos, Florinda; Dueñas, María del Pilar Muñoz

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12871-9_2

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“…The paper conceptualizes a framework that assessed the influence of Intellectual Capital on the sustainability of SMEs in Nigeria. Review of previous studies on Intellectual Capital revealed how different dimensions and indicators such as human, structural and relational capital, institutions and governance, societal framework, technology and regional capital were used (Allameh, 2018;Cabrita, Cabrita, Matos, & Dueñas, 2015;Carillo, Rodriguez, & Martí, 2006). However, the proposed framework used sustainability as the explained variable, while Intellectual Capital (proxied by KM & FL) is the explanatory variable.…”

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Intellectual Capital as a Panacea to Sustainability in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises

Garba¹

2021

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Small and Medium-scaled Enterprises (SMEs) are regarded as the engine of growth globally, as they play the critical role of economic diversification, job creation, entrepreneurial and technological development as well as revenue generation. Despite their significance, the survival rate of SMEs is shallow, especially in Less Developed Countries (LDCs), which posed a severe threat to macroeconomic stability, and significantly affect their sustainability. The study examines the relationship between Intellectual Capital and the sustainability of small and SMEs in Nigeria. Intellectual Capital (IC) was proxied by knowledge management (KM) and financial literacy (FL), while sustainability was proxied by the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) goals. A critical review of the available literature revealed that both knowledge management and financial literacy are crucial to the sustainability (SUS) of SMEs. The study further revealed that SMEs operators do not have adequate financial literacy, especially as it relates to risk exposure, which creates a threat to their long-term sustainability. The study recommends, therefore, that SMEs operators should double their efforts on knowledge acquisition and training, especially on financial concepts. Finally, the research proposed a framework that could be used by SMEs to gain sustainability.

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confidence: 99%

Intellectual Capital as a Panacea to Sustainability in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises

Garba¹

2021

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“…a 'system approach' to economics is considered as highly beneficial to the 'knowledge economy'. entrepreneurship is thought to depend heavily on a knowledge ecosystem, as a region's capabilities to activate, develop, sustain and manage knowledge dynamics and processes determine its entrepreneurial vitality [26]. Knowledge and skills from a diversity of people connected in a network can fuel the process of innovation [27].…”

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Place, relationships, and community-controlled capital: on ecosystem-based innovation towards an equitable competitive advantages distribution, the Boston Ujima project case

Bevilacqua¹,

Ou²

2018

Int. J. SDP

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The paper proposes that the issue related to an emerging inequality in advanced democracies due to the knowledge-based economy is partially argued in literature. Despite the political approaches traditionally grounded on the opposition of equality-oriented capitalism to efficiency-oriented capitalism, the shocks of technology produce results that tend to skew towards income and wealth polarization. The ongoing results of the new technologically driven economy reveal an increasing need for alternative ways to ensure an equitable distribution of the competitive advantages among the whole population. To strive against this polarization, the authors illustrated an example of multi-sectoral communitybased institution, which can collaborate to construct economic democracy by empowering the civil society with the decision-making power in the economic sphere. The study stands out from the existing empirical studies by taking the Boston ujima Project (BuP) as an analytical framework with the aim of looking at the extent to which a place-based and multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystem promotes economic democratization and helps to address socioeconomic inequality. The paper defines an analytical tool based on a comparison of literature review and the organizational structure of BuP. The literature review allows to look into the economic impact of social innovation, focusing on the economic democratization process and 'system thinking' embedded in social innovation. Then, the BuP grounded in the systematization of literature review is described as an innovation ecosystem based on the multi-stakeholder collaborative mechanism, a novel ecosystem-based innovation approach to address socioeconomic inequality. It is found that by incorporating 'ecosystem' into social innovation process, the BuP has created a holistic, integrated approach that joins place, capital and relationships to address socioeconomic inequality.

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“…Sustained economic development of the city and the region is based primarily on the development of endogenous entrepreneurship, and the development of local firms, especially small and medium-sized is considered as one of the measures of economic growth and favourable local development processes (Makieła & Rachwał 2005;Dej & Micek 2013;Cabrita et al 2015). According to Pawłowski (2007), the condition of small and medium enterprises located in the region is much more important than the size of investments done by external companies.…”

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Distribution and dynamics of development of small and medium-sized enterprises as a method of determining the growth centres. Example of Podkarpackie Region

Sobala-Gwosdz¹

2017

Studia Regionalia

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Many analysis of growth poles do not refer directly to development and dynamics of propulsive activities, but rather to their effects. In this paper the author concluded that essential role may be played by fast-growing and knowledge-based small and medium enterprises (SMEs) while their intra-regional diversity of activity may be a reasonable proxy measure of a role played by specific town as a growth centre. Therefore the article has two main goals: methodical -determining the usefulness of the activity of fast-growing and (potentially) innovative small and medium enterprises as a designatum for the growth pole and cognitive -to capture the spatial differences in the distribution of this kind of SMEs in Podkarpackie region. The study showed strong diversification of the number of fast-growing and (potentially) innovative SMEs on the local level. All techniques of determining the level of economic development and it's dynamics taken into consideration in the analysis testify to strong and rising position of Rzeszów as a regional growth pole. It indicates growing role of metropolisation processes in Poland even in case of peripheral, weakly urbanised region with a relatively small regional centre compared to the biggest Polish cities.

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Regional Development: A Perspective Based on Intellectual Capital

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Intellectual Capital as a Panacea to Sustainability in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises

Intellectual Capital as a Panacea to Sustainability in Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises

Place, relationships, and community-controlled capital: on ecosystem-based innovation towards an equitable competitive advantages distribution, the Boston Ujima project case

Distribution and dynamics of development of small and medium-sized enterprises as a method of determining the growth centres. Example of Podkarpackie Region

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