The MENA Region National Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions

Ismail, Ayman; Schøtt, Thomas; Bazargan, Abbas; Salaytah, Basheer; Kubaisi, Hamad Al; Hassen, Majdi; Vega, Ignacio de la; Chabrak, Nihel; Annan, Abier; Herrington, Mike; Kew, Penny

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90394-1_5

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“…Tunisian entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas, are highly risk averse (Abrous, 2018). That is why the kind of support required is action taken upstream, also concerning an entrepreneurial culture and the development of entrepreneurial intention (Charfi, 2020;Ismail et al, 2018;Ouanes, 2016;Dziri, 2013). Boussema (2020) identified barriers, such as a lack of entrepreneurial training and services provided by supporting organisations in Tunisia.…”

Section: The Tunisian Entrepreneurial Ecosystemmentioning

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“…This limited promotion of an entrepreneurship culture has led to questions about the effectiveness of the support practices carried out (Ouanes, 2016). Charfi (2020), Abrous (2018) and Ismail et al (2018) considered that the psychological dimension is neglected or given little attention in the support process applied in Southern Tunisia. Similarly, a case study in Saucedo-Bendek et al and Thomas and Autio (2020) revealed the same findings in the Bolivian context, which explains in part the perception of entrepreneurs marked by dissatisfaction.…”

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International cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship in southern Tunisia: activities and relations with public actors

Hanafi¹,

Koussani²,

Khamassi³

et al. 2022

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In Tunisia, international cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship boomed after the 2011 revolution. This paper analyses to what extent such projects have built the capacities of those involved in local entrepreneurial “ecosystems”. It analyses the main international cooperation projects supporting entrepreneurship in the Kebili and Medenine governorates (southern Tunisia) between 2011 and 2020. The activities of these projects were mapped and two workshops were conducted with actors of the local entrepreneurial ecosystems to discuss their implementation. Fourteen international cooperation projects were identified. These projects mostly focused on increasing the number of enterprises created, e.g., by supporting training, networking and sometimes funding. However, only one project provided support after creation of businesses, and few promoted a culture of entrepreneurship. Overall, these projects generally based their actions on the existing ecosystem of public actors in charge of supporting entrepreneurship. They made limited attempts to build the capacities of those actors, evaluate the functioning of local entrepreneurial ecosystems and coordinate among themselves.

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Section: The Tunisian Entrepreneurial Ecosystemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Too Narrow Focus On Support Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

International cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship in southern Tunisia: activities and relations with public actors

Hanafi¹,

Koussani²,

Khamassi³

et al. 2022

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“…For instance, Iran Fara Bourse has founded an over-the-counter initiative to address the initial public offering problem. Moreover, start-up accelerators such as Avatech, Dmond, TrigUp, MAPS, Setak, and Finnova, along with venture capital firms such as Sarava, Shenasa, and the IRATEL venture, emerged to fill the gap in the domestic start-up ecosystem (Ismail et al ., 2018; Kanani and Goodarzi, 2017; Lalmohammadi, 2016; Sammaknejad, 2017). Finally, professional start-up media including Techrasa, Shanbemag, Dr.startup, and Khoshfekri, among others, aim to share and develop a network of Iranian entrepreneurs via magazines, tutorial products, and news.…”

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Digital protectionism and national planning in the age of the internet: the case of Iran

Yalcintas

Alizadeh

2020

Journal of Institutional Economics

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AbstractWhat do regulations in the developing world tell us about the internet economy? In this paper, we argue that the ways in which developing nation states adjust to and legislate the internet depends upon whether they possess a national planning strategy for international data traffic. Focusing our attention on the global trade of intangible goods in Iran, we aim to demonstrate that digital protectionism causes, to varying degrees, suppression, censorship, and the violation of freedom of speech and other civil rights on the internet. Our results show that digital protectionism generated an emergence of domestic start-ups, with companies, such as Facenema and Soroush, operating in the Iranian market in the absence of global rivals such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Yet, digital protectionism and sanction-induced barriers have triggered social problems, besides the emergence of parastatals, securing the economy to an inefficient social and economic path towards digital development.

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The MENA Region National Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions

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International cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship in southern Tunisia: activities and relations with public actors

International cooperation projects in support of entrepreneurship in southern Tunisia: activities and relations with public actors

Digital protectionism and national planning in the age of the internet: the case of Iran

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