What makes cities competitive?
Find out by downloading a recent working paper from the World Bank – Kilroy, A.F.L., Mukim, M., Negri, S. (2015) Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how. The objective of this report is to create a knowledge base on what makes cities competitive, to improve the understanding of job creation at the […]
Women on Boards
Latest 5 year progress summary from Lord Davies shows progress. Get the full data plus previous reports from the UK government website. CBI response Women on Boards resource centre has numerous links to academic and business research reports and resources Fawcett society response to the report. Academic comment on the Conversation blog
Arabic collections online
Free digital library which aims to provide full-text access to Arabic language books from the collections of American University of Beirut, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University and Princeton University. Topics will include history, business and science. On campus this works better in Firefox. The URL is http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/
The characteristics of successful entrepreneurs?
A recent report by the Centre for Policy Studies revealed the backgrounds of over of 1,000 high earning individuals.
Gender GEDI Index
2014 Gender-GEDI Index Executive Report The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute has produced a 30-country analysis of the conditions that foster high-potential female entrepreneurship. The Site also provides free access to the 2013 report. Topics covered include access to business finance, perceptions of women executives, professional social media platforms. Methodology is explained in the report. […]
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