What makes an entrepreneur?: The role of feelings

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

What makes an entrepreneur? The role of feelings

This study uses a sample of 678 observations from the Community Innovation Survey 6 (CIS6) plus the Leadership Module attached in Portugal wherein 55.93% of the respondents are business Owners. It focuses on recent literature on Entrepreneurship to understand how the perceived importance of Personality Traits and Social Ties influence the decision-making process of the Entrepreneur towards an Intuitive or an Analytical Approach. It gets statistical significant values for the Founder/Sample in the traits, and for strong ties in the Founder/Owner Model shows statistical significance.

Maximum likelihood detection for OFDM signals with strong nonlinear distortion effects

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores