scholarly journals Cross-border Entrepreneurial Education, Development and Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Experiences with the Cambridge–Riga Venture Camp Programme—A Reflective Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Alan Barrell ◽  
Anders Paalzow ◽  
Elmars Baltins ◽  
Jan Storgårds ◽  
Karlis Purmalis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
Innovative Capabilities ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Knowledge And Technology Transfer ◽  
British Embassy ◽  
Home Territory

Over a 6-year period, a collaboration has been developed between a group in Cambridge, UK, and two Latvian Universities, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and other organisations, including Riga City Council, supported by the British Embassy Riga and the Latvian Embassy in London, enabling structured processes to be developed to identify aspiring entrepreneurs based in Latvia and Estonia and provide education, coaching, mentoring and encouragement first in the home territory, leading to an intense whole-week development venture camp in Cambridge for selected candidates. The programme was extended to provide ongoing business development support for a number of entrepreneurial companies with global potential, and the developing venture camp activities attracted, supported and helped accelerate the evolution in Riga of an innovative ecosystem providing leadership in the Baltics. Practical examples of cross-border knowledge and technology transfers have been recorded as part of the Cambridge–Riga Venture Camp process. This report presents the development, content and outcomes of this innovative project aimed at supporting the emergence of entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities of Latvian delegates to the project. Detailed appendices including data and narrative based survey of outcomes and assessments containing structured feedback from delegates participating in the 2020 Cambridge-Riga Venture Camp are available as the Supplementary material online. This is an interim report, since the activity is ongoing and continuously developing.

China-US tech tensions will escalate under Trump

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
United States Trade ◽  
Section 301

Significance The hearing was part of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer’s investigation of China under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, initiated in August. The US delegation to the WTO submitted in September a request for China to delay implementation of its Cybersecurity Law, citing its anticipated impact on cross-border technology transfers. Both of these developments reflect increasing technology trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Impacts US allies are likely to face pressure from Washington over procurement of Chinese ICT in government facilities. The US government is likely to use power over contracts, regulation and informal pressure to shape tech companies’ behaviour. Espionage fears will drive harsher US and European scrutiny of Chinese investment in their domestic tech sectors.

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: links between acquiring firm capabilities and resources and target country location

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-379
Author(s):  
Ronaldo Parente ◽  
Keith James Kelley ◽  
Yannick Thams ◽  
Marcelo J. Alvarado-Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Target Firm ◽  
Firm Capabilities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Acquiring Firms ◽  
Target Firms ◽  
Innovative Capabilities ◽  
Eclectic Paradigm ◽  
Country Selection ◽  
Target Country

Purpose Drawing upon the eclectic paradigm and the regulative dimension of institutional distance theory, it is posited that to understand a firms’ cross-border merger and acquisition (CBMA) location choices, it is critical to examine the acquirers’ ownership advantages. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of CBMAs undertaken by US firms from 1999 to 2015, the paper explores the extent to which acquiring firm ownership advantages – financial and innovation capabilities – influence target firm country selection in relation to regulative distance. Findings It is shown that acquiring firms with greater innovative capabilities are likely to choose target firms in nations with less regulative distance from their home market; whereas firms with greater financial capabilities target firms in more distant nations. Originality/value This paper builds on the important research on CBMA activity, focusing on the largely neglected pre-acquisition resources in relation to the regulative distance between target firms and the acquirer.

ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN IVANO-FRANKIVSK REGION (UKRAINE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Maksym Karpash ◽  
◽  
Artur Voronych ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Thermal Conversion ◽  
City Council ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Msw Management ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Conversion Technologies

In the course of the implementation of the project funded by Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI Cross border Cooperation Program 2014-2020: Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste by Thermal Conversion Technologies in Cross-border Region HUSKROUA / 1702 / 6.1 / 0015 the analysis of the system of MSW management in Ivano-Frankivsk region and the city of Ivano-Frankivsk was carried out. The volumes of formation and morphological composition of solid waste at the MSW landfill in the village of Rybne, which receives municipal solid waste from the settlements of Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, settlements of Tysmenytsia, Nadvirna, Kosiv, Kolomyia districts have been defined. The main directions of improving the current situation in the field of MSW management have been identified on the example of Ivano-Frankivsk region.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Green Entrepreneurship Intentions in Business University Students in COVID-19 Pandemic Times: Case of Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6447
Author(s):  
Aldo Alvarez-Risco ◽  
Sabina Mlodzianowska ◽  
Verónica García-Ibarra ◽  
Marc A. Rosen ◽  
Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship

This research assesses the influence of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support through entrepreneurial self-efficacy over green entrepreneurial intentions. A total of 532 business students in Ecuador participated in an online survey. Eight questions were focused on demographic information, and twenty-seven questions evaluated the green entrepreneurship intentions of students. An SEM-PLS technical analysis was used. The results showed that educational support for developing entrepreneurship (0.296), conceptual support for developing entrepreneurship (0.123), and country support for entrepreneurship (0.188) had a positive influence on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and that entrepreneurial self-efficacy had a positive influence (0.855) on gren entrepreneurial intentions. The model explained 73.1% of the green entrepreneurial intentions. Outcomes of the bootstrapping test were used to evaluate if the path coefficients are significant. This study showed the impacts of education development support, conceptual development support, and country support on the entrepreneur’s ability to carry out green entrepreneurship were positive. This information can help universities develop strategic plans to achieve ecological ventures and ensure students have the necessary skills to do so on campus. The research findings also may be helpful for the governments in establishing new norms to promote entrepreneurship. The novelty is based on using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique.

scholarly journals The formation of doctoral schools in Europe in the condition of cross-border education

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Mariya Skorobogatova ◽  
Larisa Yagenich ◽  
Yekaterina Siritsa ◽  
Irina Kirillova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
European Level ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Training Quality ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Training of doctoral students is of special attention in the modern integration conditions of the higher education development. Trends of study of the doctoral schools development are necessary and practically in demand; absence of such investigations makes forecasting of the higher education in Russia difficult. Main tendencies of the doctoral schools formation and development were identified in this article: focus shifting of the questions solving from the national into the European level; applying of the modern methodological approaches system (student-centered, interdisciplinary and competency based ones); responsibility increasing of the academic community for the doctoral students’ training quality; implementation of thematic principles; interdisciplinary; interuniversity and international integration.

scholarly journals Russian language as a means of cross-border education development

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18066
Author(s):  
Galina Marchenko ◽  
Kseniya Vodopyanova ◽  
Sergey Timofeev ◽  
Sergey Maximets
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Common ◽  
Degree Of Similarity ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article deals with the issue of reducing the importance of the Russian language in the world. Culture is the total social experience of humanity, and language is a means of accumulating, storing, and transmitting this social experience, scientific and everyday information. It is a means of objectifying human consciousness, the continuity of generations, and their historical experience. Until 1991, Russian was the universal means of interethnic communication on one-sixth of the land. The refusal to learn the Russian language in some post-Soviet republics has led to a decline and even to a drop in the level of education and culture in general. The research aims to analyze the Russian language position as the core of culture and education in the post-Soviet space as a means of cross-border cooperation, development of education, and dialogue of cultures. The study has been conducted for 10 years in the South-East of Ukraine. It seems to us that the language situation in the Donbas can be projected with some degree of similarity to the entire post-Soviet space. To determine the principle of the state language policy of the post-Soviet republics, we used the analysis of Ukraine’s legal documents in the period from 1991 to 2020. The presence of a common cultural space and language will help preserve peace and prevent war on the Eurasian continent. The common language space contributes to the development of economic, social, educational, and as a result of geopolitical ties.

scholarly journals Dominant values of professional development education spaces of cross-border regions in the aspect of postmodernism

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 22017
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Bulankina ◽  
Natalja Malahova ◽  
Ekaterina Egorova ◽  
Anna Seredintseva ◽  
Valentina Tsybaneva
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The Individual

Based on an extensive review of the current literature and research in terms of axiological approach, this article considers the strategies of post-modernism pluralistic concepts of socio-culture spaces, and discusses the ideas of andragogy supporting the value sphere of the individual of pedagogues, FLT teachers, who are responsible for the creative education development spaces in the classrooms. As a result of the study the authors present a comprehensive model of course design elements as a theory for guiding the use of new technologies in distance education through culture-oriented pedagogical strategies and activities. In conclusion there discussed some of the fruitful examples of the Tutorials in a polyculture & polylingua situation and event spaces of cross-border regions of Russia, in terms of mentoring and fostering a culure-determined learning and a self-determining individual.

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