Ahmadi Zeleti, Fatemeh, Ojo, Adegboyega and Uusitalo, Olavi (2013) Entrepreneurism and e-government in Finland: Barriers to Entry. In: ICEGOV '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, October 2013.
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Abstract
Entrepreneurship is generally considered as central to economic
development. Therefore, decisions by government to directly
support entrepreneurs with Electronic Government (e-Gov)
services can have significant impact on economic development.
Given the current downward trend in new entrepreneur numbers
in many countries, e-Gov services may arguably be best
targeted at promotion and lowering of barriers in establishing
new businesses. However, delivering effective e-Gov services
to entrepreneurs in starting new businesses will require concrete
knowledge of entrepreneurial needs on one hand and the
barriers to entry and challenges on the other hand.
Unfortunately, research dedicated to the real needs of
entrepreneurs with respect to e-Gov services is limited. This
work fills this knowledge gap through a study of the e-Gov
related factors that could contribute to lowering the barriers to
entry for new entrepreneurs. Based on the analysis of the
information gathered from a series of structured and semi-structured interviews involving 36 fresh entrepreneurs in
Finland, we identified four factors related to e-Gov services
which could lower the barrier to entrepreneurship.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Keywords: | E-Government; Entrepreneurship Promotion; Economy Development; Starting a New Business; Doing Business; Barriers to Entry; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Innovation Value Institute, IVI Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
Item ID: | 15867 |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/2591888.2591909 |
Depositing User: | Adegboyega Ojo |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2022 14:28 |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/15867 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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