ACE research vignette 009 : to grow or not to grow - that's the question

This series of research vignettes is aimed at sharing current and interesting research findings from our team and other international Entrepreneurship researchers. In this vignette, Professor Per Davidsson considers some of the dynamics associated with firm growth.

A preference-based semantics for CTD reasoning

In [8] the authors developed a logical system based on the definition of a new non-classical connective ⊗ capturing the notion of reparative obligation. The system proved to be appropriate for handling well-known contrary-to-duty paradoxes but no model-theoretic semantics was presented. In this paper we fill the gap and define a suitable possible-world semantics for the system for which we can prove soundness and completeness. The semantics is a preference-based non-normal one extending and generalizing semantics for classical modal logics.

ACE research briefing paper 009: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: GEM Australia - 2014 National Report

Most policymakers and academics agree that entrepreneurship is critical to the development and wellbeing of society. Entrepreneurs create jobs. They drive and shape innovation, thereby speeding up structural changes in the economy. By introducing new competition they contribute indirectly to increased productivity and overall economic activity. Entrepreneurship is thus a catalyst for economic growth and national competitiveness. In 2014, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)conducted its 15th annual survey of the rate and profile of entrepreneurial activity around the globe. GEM interviewed over 206,000 adults aged 18–64 in 70 economies, spanning diverse geographies and a range of development levels. The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) participated as the Australian GEM partner, surveying 2,177 Australian adults. This report provides a summary of entrepreneurship in Australia as measured by GEM, and benchmarks this against other countries. We compare the level of entrepreneurship in the population across different phases of the entrepreneurial process, and provide a profile of some key characteristics of entrepreneurs and the businesses they are starting. We also report on some of the institutional and framework conditions that support entrepreneurship.

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 009]

A Comissão da Organização dos Poderes e Sistema de Governo da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC) realiza debate sobre o papel das instituições brasileiras e a questão da divisão dos poderes em Executivo, Legislativo e Judiciário. A Comissão é dividida em três subcomissões: Subcomissão do Poder Legislativo, Subcomissão do Poder Executivo e Subcomissão do Poder Judicário e do Ministério Público. Os senadores Afonso Arinos (PSDB-RJ) e Mário Covas (PSDB-RJ) e os deputados Aldroaldo Streck (PDT-RS) e Victor Faccioni (PDS-RS) debatem sobre o tipo de sistema de governo a ser adotado: Presidencialismo, Parlamentarismo ou o Sistema Misto. O senador José Fogaça (PMDB-RS), em entrevista, relata a preferência dos constituintes em relação ao sistema de governo a ser adotado. O deputado Egídio Ferreira Lima (PMDB-PE), relator da Comissão da Organização dos Poderes e Sistemas de Governo faz uma síntese dos assuntos abordados na Comissão. O deputado Oscar Corrêa (PFL-MG), presidente da Comissão da Organização dos Poderes e Sistema de Governo relata sobre início dos trabalhos.

Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP). Data report: CTD and hydrographic data, R/V Pelican cruise, April 3-11, 1993

The Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP) Program is a component of NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program. The central hypothesis of this research is: Anthropogenic nutrient inputs have enhanced coastal ocean productivity with subsequent impacts on coastal ocean water quality, living resource yields, and the global marine carbon cycle. The initial study area for this program is the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Outflow and adjacent Louisiana shelf region.