Οικονομική δραστηριότητα και νέες επιχειρήσεις
Economic activity and new businesses
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Οικονομική δραστηριότητα ; ΕπιχειρήσειςAbstract
In the context of the postgraduate program of Economic and Operational Strategy, I undertook my diploma thesis on Economic Avtivity and new Businesses The subject of this thesis is the analysis of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as well as the impact of Innovation on the Economic development of a country. Nowadays, where entrepreneurship is considered as a growth factor, competition is promoted through technology and innovation, which are the most important components of the development of this activity.
The present study, uses the new investments as an indicator of the approximate entrepreneurship, which in turn leads to growth. The main purpose of this diploma thesis, is to detect whether new investments are affected and defined by certain factors, such as the GDP of the countries that are discussed, the GDP of U.S.A., the population density, the employment in the Industry, the employment in Services, the exporting activity, the importing activity, the cost of transactions, the distance, the tendency and the Index “Beri”, which measures the risk for one country’s companies.
The results we draw from our empirical analysis, are based on 23 European countries and concern the period 1985 - 2004. We are presenting indications for the positive and statistically significant impact of the GDP of each of the 23 countries we expect they will accept investments, of the GDP of USA, in terms of new investment that leads to economic growth and the statistically significant but negative impact of the distance factor.