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Jan 27 2022
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Prof. Marco van Gelderen seminar

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Within the series of Research Seminars organized by the PYMED Research Group, it is a great pride to receive Professor Marco van Gelderen, from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands).

The seminar will focus on the topic: «Using a comfort zone model and daily life situations to develop enterprising competencies»

It will be held next Wednesday, February 2 at 12:30 p.m. at the Joaquín Guzmán Seminar of the Department of Applied Economics I (3rd floor of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies), and will be taught in English. The seminar will be face-to-face, although with simultaneous virtual retransmission.

Prof. van Gelderen will spend several days at the University of Seville doing a short research stay in the PYMED group. Prof. van Gelderen would be very glad to hold meetings with researchers and doctoral students from the center to find out details of your lines of research, adn to see if he can be of any assistance. Any interested researcher can contact Prof. van Gelderen directly or through the group email: pymed@us.es  . More information about Prof. van Gelderen here: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/marco-van-gelderen

Abstract

This presentation reports on an experiential education program for university students aimed at the development of enterprising behaviour in daily life: individual level soft skills conducive to entrepreneurship, yet studied and practiced in non-business settings. In a nutshell, participants receive a set of eight to ten different challenges, which are not revealed until the exercise starts, which they work on for one or two days full time. Each challenge allows participants to practice the competencies of generating ideas for opportunities, taking action, perseverance, networking and network utilization, teamwork, and convincing others. The format is based on a comfort zone model. This paper reports on a qualitative analysis of the experiences of 202 participating students in 21 courses in 5 countries, reported in individual reflections, to to provide evidence for the types of learning which result. Key to learning is the element of surprise. Adaptation of current beliefs occurs when participants leave their comfort zone and have experiences that surprise them, leading to novel realisations.

Oct 30 2018
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A new spatial concentration index: A transportation cost approach

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A new spatial concentration index: A transportation cost approach impartido por Dr. Mauro Ferrante, University of Palermo.

The topic of measuring spatial concentration has received great attention in the last decades. Beyond a major interest in measuring spatial concentration of economic activities (Ellison and Glaser, 1997; Krugman, 1991; Liu, 2014), many other disciplines are concerned with phenomena distributed across space (see for example, Freemana et al., 1996). Although most of the problems affecting the currently used indices for measuring spatial concentration are well documented in the literature, only few papers made the attempt to overcome the raised issues, and the proposed solutions are generally ad-hoc solutions. These approaches generally try to combine some known concentration indices (e.g. Gini index, Ellison and Glaser index) with spatial autocorrelation indices (Moran’s I), in the attempt of catching these two facets of spatially concentrated phenomena, namely the level of the observed phenomenon in the considered units, and the spatial distributions of the units (Arbia, Piras, 2009; Guimarães, et al., 2011). Starting from these premises, this paper proposes a new index for measuring spatial concentration based on the solution of the transportation problem. The proposed approach allows to take into account for the level of concentration of the phenomenon of interest according to its spatial distribution. After reviewing the main indices currently used for measuring spatial concentration, by highlighting their main criticisms, a new index for measuring spatial concentration is proposed. An empirical application on data derived from per-capita GDP for selected European Countries is reported and results derived from the proposed index are compared with those deriving from the currently used indices.

May 15 2018
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Perceived corruption of entrepreneurship ecosystem and entrepreneurial intention

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“Perceived corruption of entrepreneurship ecosystem and entrepreneurial intention” Dr. Francesco Ceresia Università degli Studi di Palermo

Although entrepreneurship is considered one of the most powerful drivers of national economies around the world, there is little consensus about what informal factors foster entrepreneurial intention. In accordance with recent literature, entrepreneurial self-identity perception, the perception of corruption in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and perceived exogenous and endogenous obstacles to entrepreneurship were hypothesized as antecedents of college students’ and graduates’ entrepreneurial intention. A study with a sample (N = 153) composed of college students and graduates from an Italian university was conducted. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was performed to test the research hypotheses. The hypotheses that entrepreneurial self-identity perception and corruption perception of the entrepreneurial ecosystem are positive antecedents of entrepreneurial intention were confirmed. Corruption was considered as a viable and socially acceptable strategy that entrepreneurs might adopt in order to easily overcome governmental norms and rules about managing firms. It was hypothesized that the perception of corruption of the entrepreneurial ecosystem might be a positive antecedent of entrepreneurial intention if the subjects perceived the corruption as pervasive of the economic ecosystem and the effort made by national government to control corruption as ineffective. From this point of view, the positive causal relationship between perceived corruption and entrepreneurial intention could reveal college students and graduates’ propensity to perceive corruption as a phenomenon capable of generating a “grease the wheel” effect.