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Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres. It questions how these Higher Education Centres contribute to enterprise and entrepreneurship curriculum enhancement, research, and support to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Centres responds to the renewed focus on Higher Education Institutions to play a meaningful role in socio-economic development and the need for such centres to act as an equal component to the traditional roles of teaching and research within Universities. With case studies from the UK, Africa, Europe, and Canada, this collection contributes to the debate on whether entrepreneurship centres can and should play an important role in entrepreneurship activities within HEIs. Gideon Maas is Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Previously the Director of Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth University, he has created entrepreneurship centres at various universities during his career. Paul Jones is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Paul is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Management Education. He has published widely including one edited book, 48 journals and over 100 conference papers.

Systemic Entrepreneurship focuses on creating an awareness of systemic entrepreneurship and illustrates the fact that one needs to approach entrepreneurial support activities from many different angles, Systemic Entrepreneurship uniquely illustrates the need to approach entrepreneurial support activities from many different angles in order to support socio-economic development in current and future global contexts. The importance of entrepreneurship in creating and supporting socio-economic growth is generally accepted by most nations as an integral part of their development strategies. It is postulated that entrepreneurship will grow in importance in future because of the accelerated support entrepreneurs are receiving worldwide. A plethora of initiatives now exist which support entrepreneurs, but despite this increased level of support services, the global economy is still struggling to survive the recession of 2009. There is no doubt that a new approach to the development of sustainable entrepreneurship is required. This book demonstrates that a systemic approach is needed that is more heuristic and holistic in nature to accommodate both individualistic and societal approaches in the promotion of entrepreneurship

Systemic Entrepreneurship uniquely illustrates the need to approach entrepreneurial support activities from many different angles in order to support socio-economic development in current and future global contexts. The importance of entrepreneurship in creating and supporting socio-economic growth is generally accepted by most nations as an integral part of their development strategies. It is postulated that entrepreneurship will grow in importance in future because of the accelerated support entrepreneurs are receiving worldwide. A plethora of initiatives now exist which support entrepreneurs, but despite this increased level of support services, the global economy is still struggling to survive the recession of 2009. There is no doubt that a new approach to the development of sustainable entrepreneurship is required. This book demonstrates that a systemic approach is needed that is more heuristic and holistic in nature to accommodate both individualistic and societal approaches in the promotion of entrepreneurship.

An important component of change of direction speed is the ability to decelerate. Objective methods to examine this quality have been rarely reported in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the within- and between-session reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC), coefficient of variation (CV), standard error of measurement (SEM) and smallest detectable difference (SDD)) of using a laser Doppler device (LAVEG—LAser VElocity Guard) to quantify deceleration ability in 20 amateur rugby union players. Each player performed one familiarisation and two experimental sessions (seven days apart) consisting of three maximal 15 m sprints from a standing start, with an immediate deceleration to a complete stop upon hearing an audible cue at the 15 m mark. Deceleration was evaluated by determining the distance required to decelerate to 75%, 50%, 25% and 0% ('stopping distance') of the velocity achieved at 15 m of the maximal sprint. Within-session relative reliability was moderate to good (ICC = 0.64–0.83) with borderline acceptable variation (CVs = 10.51%–16.71%) across all variables. Between-session reliability reported good to excellent relative reliability (ICC = 0.79–0.93) with acceptable absolute reliability, particularly for stopping distance (SEM: 6.54%; SDD: 9.11%). The assessment shows promise as a method to quantify deceleration ability in athletes.

Urban governance as a concept has been evolving in the urban policy discourse in the last decades in the context of developing countries, from emphasising the role of formal government to the myriad of arrangements in urban development and management. Even though the outcomes are varied among countries in coping with rapid urbanisation, governments of developing countries maintain conventional planning and development system. As a result, urban space is subsequently produced by part of the urban population who have little concern and interest with formal planning rules, and by implication are excluded from such rules and regulations. Recent planning literature confirms that urban informality is now a major mode of urbanisation. Rapid urban growth experienced by Indonesia during the last decades has resulted in an imbalanced growth among islands in this country. Urbanisation has contributed to a widening disparity between megacities in Java and outer islands, with Papua Province the least developed province in Indonesia. Furthermore, Indonesia has to deal with problems of "unplanned areas" or "urban informality" in which formal planning system has operated ineffectively. Capital of Papua, Jayapura, in contrast, has experienced significant urban growth since 1990s with annual growth higher than provincial and national levels. However, issues of limited resources, limited implementation of formal spatial plans and policies in Jayapura, and rapid urban growth lead this city to problems in controlling urbanisation, including the rise of urban informality. This paper is aimed at exploring the outcomes of formal planning system in urban service provision, based on case study of mid-sized city Jayapura, including the role of stakeholders involved inside and outside the formal system. An analysis on proportion of resource allocation deployed by the city government as well as spatial analysis on distribution of urban service provision are utilised to provide an understanding about how the formal and informal mechanisms have been evolving in shaping the city. This paper concludes that in the both planned and unplanned areas, there are a variety of methods and mechanisms in used in urban service provision that enabling access and flexibility for the urban population in fulfilling their basic urban needs. ; Eje 3: Derecho a la ciudad: mutaciones, recomposiciones, adaptaciones, reformulaciones. ; Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo

New 2007 survey data on political communication is used to study the relation between commercial and ABC/SBS television consumption and Australian political and civic culture. The first section outlines the demographic characteristics of viewers who rely, respectively, for their news and current affairs, on commercial as compared with public service television. This is followed by a profile of popular views on the concentration of media ownership in Australia. The paper then shows that levels of trust in other people are higher for those who rely on public service television. Similarly, knowledge about basic constitutional facts is shown to be positively related to a preference for public service television news consumption. The same holds for civic engagement. The conclusions imply that Australians generally favour stronger public interest regulation of commercial television broadcasting. The conclusion explains that media regulation in Australia generally lags behind public preferences for a more explicitly democratic regulatory regime.

This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia's urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization. The book challenges the current formal approaches and practices to modern planning in Indonesia where many kampungs are classed as illegal and excluded from city plans. Beyond informality unpacks via 3 case studies the self-generated planning and development arrangements and mechanisms which occur parallel to processes of formal exclusion, adaptation, negotiation and modification. Kampungs are posited as inseparable urban entities contributing to the complex assemblage of the city and the dynamics of contemporary urban planning and design. In the context of planning and design practice, this book provides a better understanding on how one needs to consider human-scale urbanism to achieve more effective and efficient planning plans and policies in the self-organized city. Even though self-organization by residents comes with its challenges as outlined in the book, formal planning in both Indonesia and other developing countries has much to learn from understanding self-organized settlements (kampung) and informal settlements "as they are".

Abstrak: Sementara pemerintah berusaha untuk memenuhi kebutuhan dasar penduduknya, masyarakat dengan akses yang minim terhadap mekanisme formal pelayanan dan infrastruktur telah mengembangkan cara mereka sendiri untuk memanfaatkan sumber daya, modal sosial dan jaringan kekerabatan mereka. Literatur perencanaan yang ada sering memberi label terhadap proses, hasil dan konsekuensinya seperti alokasi lahan dan pembangunan perumahan sebagai seuatu yang ilegal karena tidak diproduksi dalam suatu sistem perencanaan dan pembangunan yang formal. Artikel ini akan mengeksplorasi munculnya tipe tata kelola perkotaan informal dalam rangka penyediaan infrastruktur perkotaan dan kebutuhan lainnya di Melanesia dengan membandingkan situasi di kota-kota menengah seperti Port Moresby dan Jayapura. Tulisan ini adalah analisis awal tentang penyediaan infrastruktur perkotaan dan kebutuhan dasar lainnya yang terorganisasi sendiri yang telah berkembang di kedua kota tersebut, ditambah dengan implikasi pergerakan ke arah pengelolaan yang lebih efektif dalam bidang tata kelola dan manajemen perkotaan.Kata Kunci: Tata kelola, permukiman informal, Jayapura, Port MoresbyAbstract: As the government tries to meet basic public needs, people with least access to formal mechanisms for services and infrastructure have developed their own means to meet their needs by utilising their resources, social capital and kin network. Mainstream planning literature has often labeled such process, outcomes and consequences such as land allocation and housing development as illegal since they are not produced in the formal planning and development system. This paper will explore the emergence of informal types of urban governance in the provision of urban infrastructure and other needs in Melanesia by comparing the situation in the mid-sized cities of Port Moresby and Jayapura. The paper is a preliminary analysis of the nature of self-organised provision of urban infrastructure and other basic needs which has been flourishing in both cities, plus the ...

This article examines the curious interplay between media sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Recent media research is increasingly drawn to STS, while STS analysts are increasingly drawn to research media technologies. While it is routine practice in STS to stress the 'materiality' of the objects under investigation, media technologies pose a challenge to this. Their 'materiality' is difficult to distinguish from their communicative/symbolic dimensions, the latter often being misframed as ideal/immaterial. By contrast, media research traditions have thought through these issues in terms of the concept of articulation and the related conceptual legacy of aesthetic modernism. While far more attentive to the specificity of 'the symbolic', these frameworks have been only partly informed by macro-social theoretical reflection. Here we advocate Calhoun's placement of communications within his 'infrastructure of modernity' as the most suitable overarching framework for discussion of this border communication. However, Calhoun's framework itself can benefit from re-invigoration by the socio-technical insights of both traditions.