A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs: Understanding Differences in the Types of Entrepreneurship in the Economy

Policymakers and pundits who use entrepreneurship as a "catch-all" phase to capture a single economic activity make an important mistake. There are two distinct types of entrepreneurship with different economic roles, requiring individually tailored policies to support each. This report examines the difference between IDE Entrepreneurship (innovation-driven enterprises) and SME Entrepreneurship (small and medium enterprises) and the type of policies required to support each

Defining social exclusion in Western Sydney: exploring the role of housing tenure

Over the past decade social exclusion has increasingly been positioned at the forefront of political, academic and lay discourse as the cause of disadvantage. While the definition, measurement and solutions to social exclusion remain open to debate, housing has progressively been positioned as a central variable creating neighbourhoods of exclusion. Much of this debate has positioned areas of public housing as the most disadvantaged and socially excluded neighbourhoods. However, the multiplicity of social exclusion questions the simple identification of areas of public housing as the most excluded. By exploring six dimensions of exclusion (neighbourhood, social and civic engagement, access, crime and security, community identify and economic disadvantage) we argue that there is relatively little difference between areas dominated by public housing and those characterised by private rental for each of these individual dimensions of exclusion (with a number of exceptions). Rather, it is the experience of multiple dimensions of exclusion which marks areas of public housing as unique

Panel: Launching a Journal in the ERA of Web 2.0 The Case of JSAIS

Based on a need for quality venues of scholarly work, the Southern Association for Information Systems voted, at their 2008 annual meeting, to sponsor an online scholarly journal. The journal will be a classical, peer reviewed journal. Its emphasis will be on originality, importance, and cogency of ideas, with a broad focus emphasizing various research methodologies and inclusive of interdisciplinary investigations. The intent is to publish articles that adhere to the highest scholarly research standards and be inclusive in the publication process. JSAIS will distinguish itself by closely working with authors to develop submitted work. The founding JSAIS committee is working to launch the journal in the very near future. However, to remain as inclusive as possible, the committee is investigating different ways in which the review process might be implemented. Several models are evolving in academic review methods. The purpose of this panel is to introduce those methods and identify ways they might be adapted to meet JSAIS needs. The panel will be asking for commentary from participants

The Chemical Signature of Dust in the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed, Idaho

Aeolian or wind-blown sediment redistribution in the northern Great Basin impacts landscape development, soil depths/variations, and wind erosion of semi-arid rangeland surfaces. This study evaluates the importance of aeolian processes for carbonates found in soils and analyzes the organic material (specifically post-fire) in dust deposits to help characterize aeolian processes on soils in Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed (RCEW) southwest of Boise. Researchers hypothesize that the source of calcium found in RCEW soils must be deposited through aeolian mechanisms, because the alternate bedrock source of calcium is inconsistent with corresponding soils. It’s important to understand how calcium is introduced to RCEW soils because soils provide storage for carbon in the form of calcium carbonate. Past dust collections from passive (vertically deposited) dust traps at RCEW are analyzed for elemental and nutrient concentrations, grain size distribution, and organic material concentrations. These analyses will build upon our understanding of calcium contributed to soils by dust and indicate any post-fire signal of organic material. This study is an extension of past research, which observed suspension and deposition of local material following wildfires with increased organic material, particle size, and mass flux. Future research will use new dust capture technology to evaluate horizontal aeolian transport