1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150612803321

Autore

Flower Amanda

Titolo

Prose and cons / / Amanda Flower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Old Saybrook, : Tantor Media, 2016

ISBN

1-5159-2040-2

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (7 audio files) : digital

Collana

Magical Bookshop Mystery, ; 2.0.

Classificazione

FIC000000FIC022000FIC022040

Soggetti

Homicide investigation

Bookstores

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Audiolibro

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

In Cascade Springs, New York, Violet Waverly and her grandma, Daisy, are the proprietors of Charming Books, where the power of the written word is positively enchanting . . . October in Cascade Springs means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe on the shop's front porch to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees. Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead in the shop moments before the event. After the shop magically tells Violet she'll need to rely on Poe's works to solve the murder, she enlists the help of her trusty tuxedo cat, Emerson, and the shop's crow, Faulkner. But they must act fast before someone else's heart beats nevermore . . .



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255039803321

Autore

Ács Zoltán J.

Titolo

Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017 / / by Zoltan J. Acs, László Szerb, Ainsley Lloyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-65903-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 119 p. 39 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Economics, , 2191-5512

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Evolutionary economics

Institutional economics

Economic Growth

Institutional and Evolutionary Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Chapter 1 The Global Entrepreneurship Index 2017 -- Chapter 2 Entrepreneurship and the Future of Global Prosperity -- Chapter 3 The Global Entrepreneurship Index -- Chapter 4 Country and Country Group Performance -- Chapter 5 Enhancing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6 Methodology and Data Description.

Sommario/riassunto

This brief presents a detailed look at the entrepreneurial ecosystem of nations around the wold by combining individual data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which measures the quality and scale of entrepreneurial process from 137 countries world-wide, this book provides a rich understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. In addition to yearly data and comparison, this 2017 edition also explores the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem and provides a detailed analysis of two measurements of entrepreneurship: the GEDI and the Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) measure. Whereas developed countries will be challenged to increase



their economic productivity to sustain current standards of living as their populations rapidly age, developing economies will need to integrate more than two billion young adults into the world economy by 2050. How can more than one billionjobs be created in the developing world within this timeframe, especially in the least developed countries, where poverty and massive unemployment are already dominant facts of economic life? How can we measure, monitor, and build the ecosystems to produce such growth?  The GEDI is designed to profile national systems of entrepreneurship. It links institutions and agents through a National Entrepreneurial System (ecosystem) in which each biotic and abiotic component is reinforced by the other at the country level. The resulting data gives policymakers a tool for understanding the entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses of their countries’ economies, thereby enabling them to implement policies that foster productive entrepreneurship. The GEDI also helps governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to add these types of challenges.