Erik Stam

Afgelopen december is Bart Nooteboom overleden. Bart was een erudiete, creatieve dwarsligger. Een pluriforme en soms eenzame wetenschapper, die altijd moeite had met erkenning. Te weinig erkenning stelde hem teleur, maar te veel ook. buff.ly/VeWcqCc

#Day_2 #CIDTA summit on African Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Summit outline: ☆Introduction to Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research by #Prof Erik stam ☆Research on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in #Africa, Carnegie Mellon University #Africa by #Prof Eric stam and #Prof Cornard tucker

Op bezoek in Nigeria maakt werkgeversvoorzitter Ingrid Thijssen zich zorgen over de bezuinigingen van het nieuwe kabinet op ontwikkelingssamenwerking. „Hulp en handel gaan vaak samen.” buff.ly/3XSBKof

Save the date! 🗓️ The Global Conference on Economic Geography will take place June 4-8, 2025 at Clark University (Worcester, MA). A little bird told me that the keynotes will be stellar 👀 gceg.org

Happy to share that our paper: "Husbands and Wives: Power, Peril and Female Participation in a Ugandan Coffee Cooperative" with @EshipRules & Canelas was published, showing the benefits of female coop participation & perils when their husband joins. 🇺🇬🌱 doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-…

Thank you, @cmu_africa, for strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa

# 24.26 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Interregional Flows of Entrepreneurial Talent peeg.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/24-…

Our new #Comment for @Nature is out today (in print and online). Alongside @jrockstrom @DrjeffreySachs @fusonerini and others we argue for a renewed and redoubled effort to tackle the #SDGs. Time to put them at the heart of our industrial & innovation policies. Read it online here ⬇️ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Wonderful news and a fitting accolade for a great scholar

📣 Special Issue @ERD_IntJournal Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Africa: Opportunities for Sustainable Development Guest Editors Benson Honig, Juliana Siwale, Olu Aluko, Erik Stam 📅 25 February 2025 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

Uganda's entrepreneurial spirit is thriving! 🚀 Young people are embracing #entrepreneurship, with government support & increased opportunities. Read this blog post to learn how Uganda is transitioning to an entrepreneurial economy & driving innovation: buff.ly/3WzDwda

Exciting news! 🎉 Registrations for this year's Entrepreneurship Education in Africa (EEA) Summit at @ALAcademy in Johannesburg are now open! The event will take place on Wednesday, 7 Aug 2024. Click here to register now: buff.ly/3wrXGeD #Entrepreneurship #EEASummit2024

The first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index, ranking countries on supporting entrepreneurs. Mauritius, South Africa & Tunisia top the inaugural index. Insufficient data for some countries shows need to improve data infrastructure across Africa. Read buff.ly/3QPXBIr

📣 Souvenir 📸 🚀 Spring School in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Research 2024, 13 - 15 May in #Stuttgart 🚀 🌟info: lnkd.in/e986iifR   ➡️Local Organizing Team: Christina Theodoraki Sophia Hess Andreas Wahl Ferran Giones Alexander Brem University of Stuttgart #EERSS2024 🇩🇪

The #EntrepreneurialEcosystem Research Community 🚀💡 A great moment to learn, share and network with senior and young scholars! Thanks to Universitat of Stuttgart team for such an amazing event! #EERS24 #PhD #AcademicTwitter

With great discussions with editors from top journals #EntrepreneurialEcosystems #EERS24

At this rate, Arm is soon worth more than Intel. Was Hermann Hauser right about Arm after all? Arm's recent run: - This week, Google announced an Arm-based Data Center CPU, called Axion, with reportedly better performance than Intel's x86 counterpart. - Last year, Nvidia announced it would sell Arm-based chips for Windows PC as soon as 2025 in major challenge to Intel (to compete against Apple's very popular Arm-based M-chip) - More generally, Arm is capitalising on the high demand for high-performance chips, shifting from a royalty rate of 50 cents to $1 per core, towards royalties north of $100 for SoCs (System-on-a-Chip) with 100 cores.

Ghana state absorption of education costs has served as a critical incentive for students to complete secondary education – and more so for girls. According to Rose Vincent @USE_UU @UniUtrecht and Victor Osei Kwadwo @UMerit33348 on @ConversationUK theconversation.com/ghanas-free-hi…

What he is saying is that markets can never be expected to clear. I mean when has supply perfectly equalled demand? I mean apart from the time when I launched a T-shirt business and sold no units.

Available soon for your Entrepreneurship course. Professors sign up here for a copy. Everyone else it will be available later in the year. seagull.wwnorton.com/entrepreneursh…