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- Breitenbach, David, et al.
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How Can the Nordic Automotive Aftermarket Provide Opportunities Counteracting the Challenges of Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs?
- 2024. - 1
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Ingår i: Automotive Aftermarket. - Cham : Springer Nature. - 9783031624186 ; , s. 309-337
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores how the automotive aftermarket could provide potential opportunities for the challenges refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs face in the Nordic countries. As the automotive industry has a vast societal impact, including geographical, economical, and employment effects, the aim of this paper is to explore the Automotive Aftermarket (AA) as a potential gateway for disadvantaged newcomers, e.g., refugees and immigrants in the Nordics, to become entrepreneurs and reach prosperity. Through qualitative research it is shown that the automotive aftermarket industry has excellent market conditions for disadvantaged entrepreneurs through low entry barriers and increasing demand side. The industry is also characterised by strong network influences, while its institutional infrastructure might be difficult to navigate. Additionally, this paper also found that language has a central piece in overcoming refugee entrepreneurs’ challenges in social integration. In summary, the paper concludes that raising awareness of the opportunities the automotive aftermarket provides in the Nordics could be beneficial both for the industry’s social impact and newcomers who wish to contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial landscape of AA.
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- Copolovici, Dana Maria, et al.
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Cell-Penetrating Peptides : Design, Synthesis, and Applications
- 2014
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Ingår i: ACS Nano. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1936-0851 .- 1936-086X. ; 8:3, s. 1972-1994
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The intrinsic property of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) to deliver therapeutic molecules (nucleic acids, drugs, imaging agents) to cells and tissues in a nontoxic manner has indicated that they may be potential components of future drugs and disease diagnostic agents. These versatile peptides are simple to synthesize, functionalize, and characterize yet are able to deliver covalently or noncovalently conjugated bioactive cargos (from small chemical drugs to large plasmid DNA) inside cells, primarily via endocytosis, in order to obtain high levels of gene expression, gene silencing, or tumor targeting. Typically, CPPs are often passive and nonselective yet must be functionalized or chemically modified to create effective delivery vectors that succeed in targeting specific cells or tissues. Furthermore, the design of clinically effective systemic delivery systems requires the same amount of attention to detail in both design of the delivered cargo and the cell-penetrating peptide used to deliver it.
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- Elo, Maria, et al.
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Migration perspective on entrepreneurship
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Entrepreneurship. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319916118 - 9783319916101 ; , s. 355-386
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Migration- a form of globalization- influences new venture creation, internationalization and overall economic landscape. These global flows of people shift human capital, entrepreneurial ideas and activities across places, but little is known on the interconnectedness of migratory and entrepreneurial dynamics. Theoretical lenses, such as migration theories, epidemic dynamics, gravity laws and bandwagon effects, among other explanatory models, have not really diffused into explaining entrepreneurship. This chapter broadens the view and addresses migration dynamics implanting entrepreneurs into new contexts and between contexts, and discusses the types of entrepreneurs and businesses “in dispersion”. The chapter advances the understanding of the intertwined nature of these two dynamics and contributes to the analytical clarity of the terminology employing the idea of topology.
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- Elo, Maria, et al.
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Transnational intrapreneurship : opportunity development in transnational teams in the Nordic periphery
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1476-1297 .- 1741-8054. ; 36:1-2, s. 103-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transnational resources of entrepreneurs and employees foster firm's competiveness. Firm competitiveness, especially the knowledge intensive business, is linked to its talent base and embeddedness in international networks providing business opportunities. However, in peripheral regions it is challenging to capitalise on international talent. This single case study describes an enterprise in Northern Sweden, which is strategically employing transnational diaspora resources and foreign STEM-talent as transnational intrapreneurs developing the business. The study contributes to international opportunity development and transnational diaspora research and illustrates how the creation of a transnational work-scape may compensate locational disadvantages and enable access to new opportunities and ideas.
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- Elo, Maria, et al.
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Transnational intrapreneurship: Opportunity development in transnational teams
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. - : InderScience Publishers. - 1476-1297 .- 1741-8054. ; 36:1/2, s. 103-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transnational resources of entrepreneurs and employees foster firm's competiveness. Firm competitiveness, especially the knowledge intensive business, is linked to its talent base and embeddedness in international networks providing business opportunities. However, in peripheral regions it is challenging to capitalise on international talent. This single case study describes an enterprise in Northern Sweden, which is strategically employing transnational diaspora resources and foreign STEM-talent as transnational intrapreneurs developing the business. The study contributes to international opportunity development and transnational diaspora research and illustrates how the creation of a transnational work-scape may compensate locational disadvantages and enable access to new opportunities and ideas.
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- Elo, Maria, et al.
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Who is doing "transnational diaspora entrepreneurship"? : Understanding formal identity and status
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of World Business. - : Elsevier. - 1090-9516 .- 1878-5573. ; 57:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (TDE), its superdiversity and respective formal identity and status. As migration increases, formal identity becomes a panacea for migrants' economic participation and global entrepreneurial policies. Our review of TDE literature identified a lack of specification of TDE types and criteria. We develop a taxonomy and discuss TDE problems addressing formal identity, generation, mixed-origin, multi-location, diversity of migratory patterns and cross-border entrepreneurial business activities. Since policymaking employs formal status for impeding or facilitating cross-border venturing, it is crucial to reduce the ambiguity of terms and categories and facilitate more nuanced and accurate theorizing and policymaking.
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- Eriste, Elo, et al.
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Peptide-Based Glioma-Targeted Drug Delivery Vector gHoPe2
- 2013
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Ingår i: Bioconjugate chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1043-1802 .- 1520-4812. ; 24:3, s. 305-313
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gliomas are therapeutically challenging cancers with poor patient prognosis. New drug delivery strategies are needed to achieve a more efficient chemotherapy-based approach against brain tumors. The current paper demonstrates development of a tumor-targeted delivery vector that is based on a cell-penetrating peptide pVEC and a novel glioma-targeting peptide sequence gHo. The unique tumor-homing peptide gHo was identified using in vitro phage display technology. The novel delivery vector, which we designated as gHoPe2, was constructed by a covalent conjugation of pVEC, gHo, and a cargo; the latter could be either a labeling moiety (such as a fluorescent marker) or a cytostatic entity. Using a fluorescent marker, we demonstrate efficient uptake of the vector in glioma cells and selective labeling of glioma xenograft tumors in a mouse model. This is the first time that we know where in vitro phage display has yielded an efficient, in vivo working vector. We also demonstrate antitumor efficacy of the delivery vector gHoPe2 using a well-characterized chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin. Vectorized doxorubicin proved to be more efficient than the free drug in a mouse glioma xenograft model after systemic administration of the drugs. In conclusion, we have characterized a novel glioma-homing peptide gHo, demonstrated development of a new and potential glioma-targeted drug delivery vector gHoPe2, and demonstrated the general feasibility of the current approach for constructing cell-penetrating peptide-based targeted delivery systems.
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- Evansluong, Quang, et al.
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Guest editorial: Migrant entrepreneurship and the roles of family beyond place and space : towards a family resourcefulness across borders perspective
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Enterprising Communities. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1750-6204 .- 1750-6212. ; 17:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The call for papers for this special issue aims to examine how migrant entrepreneurs and their families across borders rely on their places of origin and residence to promote migrant entrepreneurship and shape the entrepreneurial processes, contexts, and outcomes for migrant entrepreneurs, their families, and their communities. In doing so, this editorial and the articles of the special issue advance our knowledge of the role of the family in the countries of origin and residence for migrant entrepreneurship and propose a future research agenda on family resourcefulness across borders. We first discuss the research problem and positioning of this editorial, then briefly review the articles published in this special issue. As an outcome of the discussions, we introduce family resourcefulness across borders as a lens to gain future insights on migrant entrepreneurship. Finally, this editorial discussion presents future research directions.
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