Training Jamaica

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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES IN JAMAICA
Training and Technical Assistance programs are one of the policy responses to overcome the barriers that preclude entrepreneurship and billions of dollars are spent subsidizing entrepreneurship programs all around the world. There are several arguments for subsidizing business training and technical assistance programs. They are mainly based on inefficiencies in allocation and/or distribution generated by imperfect markets (Fairlie et al., 2014). Imperfections can be observed, for example, in credit, labor, insurance, and human capital markets.

The arguments for subsidizing training programs have been difficult to evaluate because a simple comparison between trained and non-trained entrepreneurs is biased by the fact that the two groups differ in many observable and unobservable dimensions (e.g. trained entrepreneurs might be more able, more willing to take risks and might have better outcomes even without the training). Therefore, we still know little about the overall effectiveness of entrepreneurship training or whether it can mitigate market failures.
The goal of the proposed experimental evaluation is to test the effects of two different types of trainings and their combination: Training 1 will focus on non-cognitive skills or successful entrepreneurial traits (attitudes, personalities and aspirations), Training 2 will focus on business practices (such as planning, accounting, finance, marketing, etc.) and Training 3 will be a combination of training 1 and 2 either in a “blended” version or, preferably, as a sequence.

For this purpose CTI has identified the Jamaica Business development Corporation as a ideal partner in the Caribbean. The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has been very active in the area of providing training and technical assistance for the development of newly created firms. For this reason, the “MSME and Entrepreneurship Policy” (2013) recently developed by the Jamaican Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce identifies the JBDC as the agency that will lead the process of training MSMEs in the areas of business practices (business plan preparation, finance, marketing, product management) and Entrepreneurship Skills Development

StatusFinished
Period02.02.1628.02.19

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Researchers

  1. Claudia Erk

Publications

  1. Commentary on Outer Space Treaty 1967
  2. Reframing the technosphere
  3. Different ways lead to ambidexterity
  4. Combining mechanics and electrostatics
  5. Gutes Leben vor Ort
  6. Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urt. v. 1.7.2010 (Fall Povse)
  7. Performance analysis of a thermochemical based heat storage as an addition to cogeneration systems
  8. Enhancing the transformative potential of interventions for the sustainable use of natural resources
  9. Environmentalitäre Zeit
  10. Improving the cost-effectiveness of a healthcare system for depressive disorders by implementing telemedicine
  11. Support from the Internet for Individuals with Mental Disorders
  12. Empirical research on mathematical modelling
  13. Gender differences on general knowledge tests
  14. "Glaubt ihr nicht, so bleibt ihr nicht"
  15. Lung fibroblasts from patients with emphysema show markers of senescence in vitro
  16. A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups
  17. Behavior of microstructure and mechanical properties in the stir zone of friction stir welded ME21 magnesium alloy
  18. Feedback Systems
  19. Not Only a Workplace
  20. The research potential of new types of enterprise data based on surveys from official statistics in Germany
  21. Multivariate Optimization of Analytical Methodology and a First Attempt to an Environmental Risk Assessment of β-Blockers in Hospital Wastewater
  22. Towards a thick understanding of sustainability transitions - Linking transition management, capabilities and social practices
  23. Der Mensch in Zahlen
  24. Basin efficiency approach and its effect on streamflow quality, Zerafshan River Uzbekistan
  25. Frame Diffusion and Institutional Choice in Regional Economic Cooperation
  26. Bimodal Enterprise Architecture Management
  27. Revisiting the tolerance limit of Fe impurity in biodegradable magnesium
  28. Effect of Welding Speed on Friction Stir Welds of PM2000 Alloy
  29. The Pricing of Default-free Interest Rate Cap, Floor, and Collar Agreements
  30. All Along the Data Watch Tower.
  31. CSR Communication and the Polarization of Public Discourses
  32. Risk Aversion and Worker Sorting into Public Sector Employment
  33. Two types of ‘enough’
  34. The Structure and Behavioural Effects of Revealed Social Identity Preferences
  35. Transparency and Representation of the Public Interest in Investment Treaty Arbitration
  36. Biomass derived ionic liquids

Press / Media

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