Phenomenon of intellectual entrepreneurship and emerging patterns of intellectual entrepreneurship in Latvia

The paper is a report on the work in progress on the broader exploratory study into intellectual entrepreneurship in the Baltics, which aims to explore the emerging patterns of intellectual entrepreneurship through experience of individuals. The findings are based on the qualitative interviews with 13 entrepreneurs, who fit Johansson et. al. (1999) and Konstantinov and Filonovich (2005) definition of intellectual entrepreneurs and whose businesses fit Schumpeter's (1934) definition of innovativeness. Based on the literature of intellectual entrepreneurship the emerging typology of intellectual entrepreneurship was developed to assist in selecting the sample. The participants of the study were divided into the following categories: entrepreneuring academics, entrepreneuring academic profesionals, entrepreneuring intellectuals and intuitive entrepreneurs. During the study three emerging patterns of IE in Latvia were identified, which can be called ‘an ideal one’, ‘professional one’ and a ‘forced one’ depending on the educational, professional and experiential background of the entrepreneurs. The identified patterns will lay the foundation for further development of training and educational programmes for potential entrepreneurs, providing specialised cross‐disciplined programmes not only for students studying entrepreneurship, economics or business, but also for the students from other disciplines, thus increasing the potential for developing intellectual entrepreneurs. It will also allow identifying the ways of utilising intellectual capacity of individuals and attracting them into entrepreneurship in non‐extreme, positive circumstances. Firstd Published Online: 14 Oct 201

From fundamental freedom to political and economic ‘hot potato’ in 50 years: Labour mobility and migration within the EU

The free movement of labour and the creation of a European Labour Market have been the objectives of the European Union since its creation, but it is only with the 2004 enlargement that this has started to become a reality, with substantial numbers of East European workers seeking employment in the old member states. This paper uses the data from the UK Worker Registration Scheme and that compiled by the European Commission to examine the nature of this movement and its impact on the economies of both the existing and the new member states. First Published Online: 14 Oct 201

From fundamental freedom to political and economic ‘hot potato’ in 50 years: labour mobility and migration within the EU

The free movement of labour and the creation of a European Labour Market have been the objectives of the European Union since its creation, but it is only with the 2004 enlargement that this has started to become a reality, with substantial numbers of East European workers seeking employment in the old member states. This paper uses the data from the UK Worker Registration Scheme and that compiled by the European Commission to examine the nature of this movement and its impact on the economies of both the existing and the new member states

Analysis of regional innovation environment factors within the institutional approach

The article deals with a new approach to the assessment of regional innovation environment factors. The approach is based on the assessment of three fundamental factors: the legal, infrastructural, and economic ones. The theoretical significance of the study lies in a contribution to the development of techniques for the assessment of development factors of the innovation environment of regions on the basis of an index method, taking into account expert opinions of innovators. The purpose of the research was to develop a mechanism for the regulation of the development of the regional innovation environment on the basis of the author’s technique - the PRIM index. The methods of research included the economic and statistical methods, methods of expert evaluation, the correlation and regression analysis, and the index method. The result of the research is the formation of an organizational and economic mechanism for the regulation of the development of the regional innovation environment on the basis of the PRIM index method that takes into account the assessment of innovators in order to increase the level of the regional innovation potential as a factor of social and economic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Based on this mechanism, the authors proposes an algorithm for managerial decision-making aimed at improving the management of the innovative potential of regions

Ekonomikas un uznemejdarbibas problemas Latvija

Summaries in Latvian, English, RussianAvailable from Latvian Academic Library / LAL - Latvian Academic LibrarySIGLELVLatvi