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Global entrereneurship Monitor 2012 – Report on SwitzerlandThe Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report 2012 on Switzerland illustrates national differences in entrepreneurial attitudes, activity, and aspirations between economies, revealing the factors that determine the nature and level of national entrepreneurial activity, and identifying policy implications for enhancing entrepreneurship in Switzerland. The GEM data not only already existing indicators of competitiveness and innovation, but also allow – as in 2011 – the creation of a new aggregate index, the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI).
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The great remuneration survey. Study of remuneration preferences among salaried employees and civil servantsIn spite of the index jump and other measures intended to keep salary costs under control, the figures show that employers in our country face high costs. According to Eurostat, the average hourly salary cost in Belgium is 39.60 euros, which is more than in France (36 euros), the Netherlands (34.80 euros) or Germany (34.10 euros) That amount includes both the employee’s pay and the social security contributions.
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Groeikapitaal en buy-outs gids in BelgiëExisting consumer innovativeness scales ignore the multitude of motivation sources of buying innovations. The objective of this paper is to incorporate recent motivation research into a multi-dimensional innovativeness scale to better account for the consumer-product relation. An exploratory and confirmatory study (with 780 respondents in total) indicates that four types of motivations underlie consumer innovativeness: functional, hedonic, social and cognitive. The proposed 28-item Motivated Consumer Innovativeness scale proves to be reliable, valid and goes beyond existing innovativeness scales.
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Growing beyond. Hoe Belgische high-performers in moeilijke tijden concurreren om groeicompensation—control, social-psychological and fit paradigms. It then allocates 18
