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Examining Competing Entrepreneurial Concerns in a Social Question and Answer (SQA) Platform
2021
This study aims to determine the competing concerns of people interested in startup development and entrepreneurship by using topic modeling and sentiment analysis on a social question-and-answer (SQA) website. Understanding the underlying concerns of startup entrepreneurs is critical to society and economic growth. Therefore, greater scientific support for entrepreneurship remains necessary, including data mining from virtual social communities. In this study, an SQA platform was used to identify the sentiment of thirty concerns of people interested in startup entrepreneurship. Based on topic modeling and sentiment analysis of 18819 inquiries in various forums on an SQA, we identified addi…
Characteristics and Actors of Impact Investing Ecosystem from the Perspective of Technology Startups
2023
Interest in impact investing within technology startup industry is in-creasing. Regardless of the growing interest in impact investing, there is a significant deficiency in research considering practice of impact investing in the field of technology. Also, technology startup perspective on impact investing ecosystem research is novel research stream which and the existing research on topic is very limited. Ecosystem paradigm is widely adopted in economics and management research and adopting it in impact investing research could increase the comprehension of the phenomenon. Again, it may result in better business decisions among startup company management and foster impact investments alloc…
Impact Investing in Information Technology Business
2022
Impact investing is one of most prominent investing strategies that pursue to generate measurable environmental and social effects in addition to profits. Despite the growth of the impact investing market and plausible results of information technology (IT) solutions and services, impact investments in the IT markets have been scarce and there has been very little research of the phenomenon. This study presents a multivocal literature review (MLR) to narrow the gap between the practitioners and scholars and provides results for further research avenues. The study reviews 374 literature sources in total using pre-selected keywords which were analysed using thematic and content analysis. Resu…
A quantitative insight into the impact and performance of seed accelerators and their accelerated start-ups
2020
El tema de investigación de esta tesis es el estudio de las aceleradoras de emprendimiento (AE), consideradas la nueva generación de incubadora de empresas (Bøllingtoft, 2012). Tanto las incubadoras como las aceleradoras permiten a las empresas jóvenes comenzar su actividad a través de un proceso de aprendizaje, consultoría e inversión, con el objetivo de aumentar sus posibilidades de supervivencia y crecimiento en el mercado durante sus primeros meses de vida (Cohen y Hochberg, 2014). El número de AE ha aumentado drásticamente desde la primera Aceleradora conocida en 2005 (Y Combinator), hasta un estimado de más de 3.000 AE en todo el mundo (Hochberg, 2016). Europa en particular, experimen…
Izglītības projekta "Start IT" pamatskolu moduļu izstrāde un funkcionalitātes papildināšana
2015
Izglītības projekts “Start IT” ir pirmā bezmaksas programmēšanas apguves programma vispārizglītojošās skolās Latvijā. Tās galvenais mērķis ir veicināt skolēnu interesi par informāciju tehnoloģiju nozari. Autora izstrādātais pamatskolu modulis “Start IT” projektam ir paredzēts mācību programmu, klašu, nodarbību, uzdevumu informācijas izmaiņu un skolēnu un skolotāju savstarpējās saziņas funkcionalitātei. Sistēma ir realizēta Ruby programmēšanas valodā, izmantojot ietvaru Ruby on Rails, kas ir balstīts uz Model-View-Controller strukturēšanas principiem. Datu glabāšanai izmatota MySQL datubāze. Sistēma tika izstrādāta, izmantojot spējas (Agile) programmatūras izstrādes pieeju. Atslēgvārdi: Ruby…
Triple Helix modeļa pielietojuma iespējas starta uzņēmējdarbības vides veidošanā: Latvijas, Somijas un Igaunijas situāciju analīzes.
2016
Maģistra darba tēma ir Triple Helix modeļa pielietojuma iespējas starta uzņēmējdarbības vides veidošanā: Latvijas, Somijas un Igaunijas situāciju analīzes. Starta uzņēmējdarbība strauji attīstās visā pasaulē un aizvien pieaug to popularitāte un palielinās to nozīme valstu ekonomiku attīstībā. Šajā maģistra darbā tiek padziļināti pētītas un iepazītas trīs valstu starta uzņēmējdarbības vides, lai spētu izprast, kas starta uzņēmējdarbības vides padara veiksmīgas un efektīvas. Šī darba mērķis ir izveidot Latvijas Triple Helix modeli un to salīdzināt ar Igaunijas un Somijas Triple Helix modeļiem, lai varētu noteikt iemeslus kādēļ Latvijas starta uzņēmējdarbības vide atpaliek no iepriekšminēto va…
Rats with elevated genetic risk for metabolic syndrome exhibit cognitive deficiencies when young
2021
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a known risk factor for cognitive decline. Using polygenic rat models selectively bred for high and low intrinsic exercise capacity and simultaneously modelling as low and high innate risk factor for MetS respectively, we have previously shown that adult animals with lower exercise capacity/higher MetS risk perform poorly in tasks requiring flexible cognition. However, it is not known whether these deficits in cognition are present already at young age. Also, it is unclear whether the high risk genome is related also to lower-level cognition, such as sensory gating measured as prepulse inhibition. In this study, young and adult (5-8 weeks and ∼9 months) rats sel…
APPLICATION OF SELECTED LACTIC ACID BACTERIA FOR THE YEAR-ROUND PRODUCTION OF VASTEDDALIKE CHEESE
2014
Sourdough and cereal-based foods: traditional and innovative products
2017
Cereals represent the main crop of the five continents and contribute greatly to the diet of several populations. Cereals often undergo a fermentation before eating. This process is fundamental to confer high sensory quality, as well as to preserve and enhance the nutritional and safety aspects of the resulting products. Fermented cereal based foods are complex microbial ecosystems, mainly represented by lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. Among these products, sourdough is worldwide applied to produce breads. Sourdough technology is also used to improve the final characteristics of fortified and gluten–free breads. This chapter focuses on the use of cereals to produce the most relevant fermen…
Software Startups – A Research Agenda
2016
Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models. Softwarestartups are quite distinct from traditional mature software companies, but also from micro-,small-, and medium-sized enterprises, introducing new challenges relevant for software engineeringresearch. This paper’s research agenda focuses on software engineering in startups, identifying,in particular, 70+ research questions in the areas of supporting startup engineering activities,startup evolution models and patterns, ecosystems and innovation hubs, human aspects in softwarestartups, applying startup conc…