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The Determinants of Academic Entrepreneurial Intentions: a Study of Italian Scientists
No full textDue to the early stage and embryonic nature of university technologies is necessary to focus on the predictors inside the Italian university context that influence the creation of academic spinoff.
The recent challenges in the Italian University context confirm the necessity to focus on the attitudes of universities to stimulate entrepreneurial activity. The aim of the paper is to focus on the determinants of academic entrepreneurial intentions in life science research area, capturing the current impact of the challenges coming from the social and environmental context.
This research contributes to better understanding the determinants that influence the creation of the new ventures analyzing the complete dynamic between individual and environmental factors and examining the attitudes of academic scientists to plan their business and catch the market's opportunities. This paper adds an empirical contribution to the literature about entrepreneurial intentions, focusing on the influence of social capital assets of researchers in the life science research area. This research is based on a sample of academic scientists, which are employed in the life sciences department and research area of University d'Annunzio in Italy. We sent a questionnaire of 723 scientists of which 134 responded to our survey, with a response rate of 19%. The data collected was used to measure all variables (both observed and latent), to test the model in the Italian context. The empirical findings highlight the different effects of internal and external variables on academic entrepreneurial intentions. Personal networks are significant predictors of the entrepreneurial intentions of scientists to become entrepreneurs
Dataset on green macroprudential regulations and instruments: Objectives, implementation and geographical diffusion
Full text linkThe dataset presented in this article contains the data gathered when surveying existing “green” macroprudential regulations and instruments. Official central banks’ documents and acts, as well as financial institutions reports, have been considered. In particular, for the selected OECD and non-OECD countries, the dataset contains information on the type of institutional governance, the mandate, the type of green regulation, the institution responsible for its implementation or promotion, the official reference and the related link to the document, as of February 2019. The dataset is made publicly available considering the actively evolving debate about the adoption of green prudential requirements and the implementation of green prudential instruments
Fostering green investments and tackling climate-related financial risks: Which role for macroprudential policies?
Full text linkWhile there is a growing debate among researchers and practitioners on the possible role of central banks and financial regulators in supporting a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy, the information on which macroprudential instruments could be used for reaching the “green structural change” is still quite limited. Moreover, the achievement of climate goals is still affected by the so-called “green finance gap”. This paper addresses these issues by proposing a critical review of existing and novel prudential approaches to incentivizing the decarbonization of banks' balance sheets and aligning finance with sustainable growth and development objectives. The analysis carried out in the paper allows understanding of under which conditions macroprudential policy could tackle climate change and promote green lending, while also containing climate-related financial risks
Social and traditional entrepreneurial intention: what's the difference
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to explore the practice of social entrepreneurship by comparing the determinants of entrepreneurial intention in traditional start-ups with those leading to start-ups with a social mission. Social entrepreneurial intentions clearly merit investigation given that the opportunity identification process is an intentional process that is common to both type of start-ups.
The key argument of this paper is that intentionality in both traditional and social entrepreneurs, it is influenced by individuals' perceptions toward opportunities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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