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2012-028: Whom to target: an obvious choice?

Esther Schüring and Franziska Gassmann

2012-027: Entrepreneurship and economic development: Theory, evidence and policy

Wim Naudé

2012-026: Remittances provide resilience against disasters in Africa

Wim Naudé and Henri Bezuidenhout

2012-025: Open innovation, contracts, and intellectual property rights: an exploratory empirical study

John Hagedoorn and Ann-Kristin Ridder

2012-024: Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Abdul Waheed

2012-023: An exploration of agricultural grassroots innovation in South Africa and implications for innovation indicator development

Brigid Letty, Zanele Shezi and Maxwell Mudhara

2012-022: Innovation strategies and employment in Latin American firms

Gustavo Crespi and Pluvia Zuniga

2012-021: Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Zoltan Acs and Wim Naudé

2012-020: International entrepreneurship and technological capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

Juliane Brach and Wim Naudé

2012-019: Implementation of cross-country migration surveys in conflict-affected settings: Lessons from the IS Academy survey in Burundi and Ethiopia

Sonja Fransen, Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel

2012-018: New Technologies in remittances sending: Opportunities for mobile remittances in Africa

Melissa Siegel and Sonja Fransen

2012-017: Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan

Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel

2012-016: Gains from child-centred Early Childhood Education: Evidence from a Dutch pilot programme

Robert Bauchmüller

2012-015: New firm creation and failure: A matching approach

Thomas Gries, Stefan Jungblut and Wim Naudé

2012-014: Social interactions and complex networks

Daniel Opolot

2012-013: "Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken": Entrepreneurship and the happiness of nations

Wim Naudé, José Amorós and Oscar Cristi

2012-012: The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion

Robin Cowan, Nicolas Jonard and Rifka Weehuizen

2012-011: Do Ak models really lack transitional dynamics?

Yoseph Getachew

2012-010: The monkey on your back?! - Hierarchical positions and their influence on participants' behaviour within communities of learning

Martin Rehm, Wim Gijselaers and Mien Segers

2012-009: The informal ICT sector and innovation processes in Senegal

Almamy Konté and Mariama Ndong

2012-008: A Simulation of Social Pensions in Europe

Frieda Vandeninden

2012-007: Foreign aid transaction costs

Frieda Vandeninden

2012-006: Cross-national trends in permanent earnings inequality and earnings instability in Europe 1994-2001

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-005: The impact of malnutrition and post traumatic stress disorder on the performance of working memory in children

Elise De Neubourg and Chris De Neubourg

2012-004: Estimates of the value of patent rights in China

Can Huang

2012-003: Evaluating binary alignment methods in microsimulation models

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-002: A methodological survey of dynamic microsimulation models

Jinjing Li and Cathal O'Donoghue

2012-001: Maastricht Reflections on Innovation

Luc Soete

2011-077: Shaping earnings instability: labour market policy and institutional factors

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2011-076: Putting agricultural research into use: Lessons from contested visions of innovation

Andrew Hall

2011-075: The impact of sectoral heterogeneities in economic growth and catching up: Empirical evidence for Latin American manufacturing industries

Alejandro Lavopa

2011-074: Mobile banking: Innovation for the poor

Tashmia Ismail and Khumbula Masinge

2011-073: Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries?

Rajneesh Narula

2011-072: Socio-economic transformations of Sardar Sarovar project-affected indigenous populations and post-colonial development state

Sutapa Chattopadhyay

2011-071: Catching up in the 21st century: Globalization, knowledge & capabilities in Latin America, a case for natural resource based activities

Michiko Iizuka and Luc Soete

2011-070: Earnings Mobility in Europe: 1994-2001: Do more flexible labour markets experience a higher earnings mobility?

Denisa Sologon and Cathal O'Donoghue

2011-069: Manufacturing and Economic Growth in Developing Countries, 1950-2005

Adam Szirmai and Bart Verspagen

2011-068: Segregation in neighbourhoods and labour market outcomes of immigrants: Evidence from random assignment in the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Lex Borghans

2011-067: Neighbourhood spatial order and firm mobility in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods of the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Bart Sleutjes

2011-066: Immigrant entrepreneurship on the move: A longitudinal analysis of first and second generation immigrant entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

Pascal Beckers and Boris F. Blumberg

2011-065: Country terms of trade: Trends, unit roots, over-differencing, endogeneity, time dummies, and heterogeneity

Thomas Ziesemer

2011-064: Exploring the role of the neighbourhood in firm relocation: differences between stayers and movers

Bart Sleutjes and Pascal Beckers

2011-063: Business spaces between entrepreneurs and opportunities. The impact of the local built environment and zoning regulations on businesses in Dutch cities

Pascal Beckers and Robert C. Kloosterman

2011-062: User innovation in the business enterprise sector of Maputo Province in Mozambique

Júlia Eva Baltazar Zita and Avelino Hermíneo Lopes

2011-061: Innovation and firm-level productivity: econometric evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Abdul Waheed

2011-060: The Use and Economic Impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Sudan

Samia Nour

2011-059: The use and economic impacts of ICT at the macro-micro levels in the Arab Gulf countries

Samia Nour

2011-058: Arab regional systems of innovation: characteristics and implications

Samia Nour

2011-057: A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education

Jo Ritzen

2011-056: Research, higher education and innovation: redesigning multi-level governance within Europe in a period of crisis

Jo Ritzen and Luc Soete