Implementing the knowledge-based economy: Market devices as policy instruments

We chart the rise and fall of Business Link as a policy instrument for furthering the knowledge-based economy, while also examining how it was implemented by one particular Business Link Operator in Southern England. We zoom in on the specific policy objective to encourage SMEs to adopt e-commerce, which was singled out by the Blair government as a key innovation that marked a competitive "knowledge-driven economy." Drawing on qualitative data and analysis (including policy documents, media reports and interviews with Personal Business Advisers), we undertake a socio-material description of Business Link's enterprise support activities. We found that the implementation of Business Link by successive UK governments required the construction and operation of socio-technical devices to perform a variety of market functions to address a perceived market failure that was thought to impede the rate of SMEs’ adoption of managerial and technological innovations. We show that the effectiveness and efficiency of these market devices depended on their particular design, composition, and mode of deployment, and that after the Labour government’s 2005 reforms broke the original market devices, Business Link actors created new ones to perform those market functions and fulfil the policy objectives, sometimes in contravention of government rules

Schumpeterian entrepreneurship as dual mediation between markets and between heterogeneous resources

The dualism of Joseph Schumpeter's personal and depersonalised concepts of entrepreneurship, together with his thesis about the obsolescence of the entrepreneur leading to the downfall of capitalism, have spawned contradictory interpretations and divergent research traditions. Richard Langlois proposes to resolve this dualism and the obsolescence thesis by defining entrepreneurship in terms of charisma and also applying it to corporate leaders. We disagree with Langlois's solution and instead define entrepreneurship as a dual mediation between markets and between heterogeneous resources. Our solution nevertheless shares similarities with Langlois's own entrepreneurial theory of the firm and builds on the post-Schumpeterian evolutionary economics literature

Following entrepreneurs to markets: What entrepreneurship theory and market studies can learn from each other

Rationalist approaches of entrepreneurship theory and empiricist studies of markets that draw on Science and Technology Studies and actor-network theory (ANT) have had limited interactions so far and tend to treat each other with suspicion and dismissal. We review both approaches from their respective points of view to identify their differences and misunderstandings, but also their historical, methodological and theoretical commonalities and complementarities. Drawing on an empirical study of e-commerce entrepreneurship in southern England in the mid-2000s that utilised ANT, we articulate the notion of the entrepreneurial market as a promising construct for establishing common ground between entrepreneurship theory and market studies for a more fruitful dialogue

PEMBERDAYAAN KOMUNITAS PEMUDA: MENUJU PALANGKA RAYA SEBAGAI IBUKOTA PEMERINTAHAN REPUBLIK INDONESIA

The article aimed to analyze and identify the readiness of the Palangka Raya city to be the Administrative Capital City of the Republic of Indonesia. An indicator is from the aspect of Youth readiness in the City of Palangka Raya in welcoming the transfer of the administrative capital city. As an important aspect in preparing the Palangka Raya city as the Capital of the future Government is the readiness of youth in the Palangka Raya itself in welcoming the transfer of the administrative capital city from Jakarta to Palangka Raya. Youth, in reality, is a pioneer of any changes occurring throughout the history of the Indonesian. The roles of youth always start from the National Awakening on 1908, the Youth Oath on 1928, the Independence Revolution on 1945, the Proclamation of Independence on 1945, and the Reformation Movement on 1998. Based on history on behalf of the Youth has sensitivity to the problems faced by the nation. Currently, there is a positive trend related to Youth activities in Palangka Raya. Today, there are a lot of youth communities in the Palangka Raya that are formed by young people on the basis of social awareness, voluntary and non-profit oriented aiming to improve competence. There needs a collaboration between the local government and the youth community aiming to invite more youth in Palangka Raya who are creative in an effort in welcoming the transfer of the administrative capital city of Republic of Indonesia, from Jakarta to Palangka Raya city