📣 Special Issue Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Africa: Opportunities for Sustainable Development Guest Editors Benson Honig, Juliana Siwale, Olu Aluko, Erik Stam 📅 25 February 2025 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Ghana state absorption of education costs has served as a critical incentive for students to complete secondary education – and more so for girls. According to Rose Vincent U.S.E. Utrecht University and Victor Osei Kwadwo UNU MERIT on The Conversation theconversation.com/ghanas-free-hi…

At this rate, Arm is soon worth more than Intel. Was Hermann Hauser right about Arm after all? Arm's recent run: - This week, Google announced an Arm-based Data Center CPU, called Axion, with reportedly better performance than Intel's x86 counterpart. - Last year, Nvidia

Uganda's entrepreneurial spirit is thriving! 🚀 Young people are embracing #entrepreneurship, with government support & increased opportunities. Read this blog post to learn how Uganda is transitioning to an entrepreneurial economy & driving innovation: buff.ly/3WzDwda

📣 Souvenir 📸 🚀 Spring School in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research 2024, 13 - 15 May in #Stuttgart 🚀 🌟info: lnkd.in/e986iifR   ➡️Local Organizing Team: Christina Theodoraki Sophia Hess Andreas Wahl Ferran Giones Alexander Brem University of Stuttgart #EERSS2024 🇩🇪

The #EntrepreneurialEcosystem Research Community 🚀💡 A great moment to learn, share and network with senior and young scholars! Thanks to Universitat of Stuttgart team for such an amazing event! #EERS24 #PhD #AcademicTwitter

With great discussions with editors from top journals #EntrepreneurialEcosystems #EERS24

Exciting news! 🎉 Registrations for this year's Entrepreneurship Education in Africa (EEA) Summit at ALA in Johannesburg are now open! The event will take place on Wednesday, 7 Aug 2024. Click here to register now: buff.ly/3wrXGeD #Entrepreneurship #EEASummit2024

The first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index, ranking countries on supporting entrepreneurs. Mauritius, South Africa & Tunisia top the inaugural index. Insufficient data for some countries shows need to improve data infrastructure across Africa. Read buff.ly/3QPXBIr

Had a wonderful conference on Machine Learning for Data- & Algorithm Sharing in Social Science at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca. Thank you @michele_ctrl and Erik Stam for the kind invitation! Mille Grazie 🇮🇹

Wonderful news and a fitting accolade for a great scholar

Our new #Comment for nature is out today (in print and online). Alongside Johan Rockström Dr. Jeffrey Sachs @fusonerini and others we argue for a renewed and redoubled effort to tackle the #SDGs. Time to put them at the heart of our industrial & innovation policies. Read it online

Op bezoek in Nigeria maakt werkgeversvoorzitter Ingrid Thijssen zich zorgen over de bezuinigingen van het nieuwe kabinet op ontwikkelingssamenwerking. „Hulp en handel gaan vaak samen.” buff.ly/3XSBKof

# 24.26 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Interregional Flows of Entrepreneurial Talent peeg.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/24-…

#Day_2 #CIDTA summit on African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Summit outline: ☆Introduction to Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research by #Prof Erik stam ☆Research on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in #Africa, Carnegie Mellon University #Africa by #Prof Eric stam and #Prof Cornard tucker

Thank you, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, for strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa

Happy to share that our paper: "Husbands and Wives: Power, Peril and Female Participation in a Ugandan Coffee Cooperative" with Erik Stam & Canelas was published, showing the benefits of female coop participation & perils when their husband joins. 🇺🇬🌱 doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-…

Save the date! 🗓️ The Global Conference on Economic Geography will take place June 4-8, 2025 at Clark University (Worcester, MA). A little bird told me that the keynotes will be stellar 👀 gceg.org

Die Eppo… als we internationale studenten weren nemen de vaste kosten niet af, dus de vrije middelen per NL student wel. En als we dat niet doen, dan kort hij ons op de bijdrage per student. Linksom of rechtsom wordt dus vooral de NL student genaaid! Oh ja, en de wetenschap…

Afgelopen december is Bart Nooteboom overleden. Bart was een erudiete, creatieve dwarsligger. Een pluriforme en soms eenzame wetenschapper, die altijd moeite had met erkenning. Te weinig erkenning stelde hem teleur, maar te veel ook. buff.ly/VeWcqCc