Palestinian diaspora entrepreneurship - a driving force in the knowledge economy / Mervat Hatem N. Shahin
National economies are becoming more knowledge based-economies where productivity and growth have become more dependent on knowledge. In view of this rising globalised knowledge economy, trans-national migrants are playing an increasing role contributing to demographic changes and answering to t...
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Summary: | National economies are becoming more knowledge based-economies where
productivity and growth have become more dependent on knowledge. In view
of this rising globalised knowledge economy, trans-national migrants are
playing an increasing role contributing to demographic changes and answering
to the competition amongst nations for skilled knowledge nomads.
Emigrated intellectual, skilled, and technological people are an invaluable
resource for the development of their respective home countries. Their
contributions to economic development are substantial through platforms of the
knowledge economy, and via knowledge networks. Entrepreneurs, be they
local or Diaspora, have become a key element of economic development,
success, and sustainability. Entrepreneurship is presently the most effective
method for bridging the gap between science and marketplace, creating new
enterprise, and bringing new products and services to the market. So, the
purpose of the study is to bridge or channel Palestinian’s Diaspora
entrepreneurs to be a part of the development process in Palestine via
entrepreneurship. The challenge that is facing Palestinian Diaspora is how to
bridge the Palestinian Diaspora entrepreneurs that are distributed around the
world with the development inside Palestine through entrepreneurship.
This study discusses entrepreneurial networks interactions positioning
entrepreneurs among Palestinian Diaspora as a global asset in driving
innovative capabilities. This study aims at building a framework for stronger
relationships between Palestinian Diaspora and development in Palestine based
on a strong supporting platform of science, engineering, technology &
innovation (SET&I). The framework for the linkages positions the entrepreneurs among Palestinian Diaspora as the central driving force for
successful implementation of the study. The study identifies and evaluates
causes of mobility of the Palestinian Diaspora (push-pull factors), and
evaluates entrepreneurial characteristics of Palestinian Diaspora by identifying
their capacity and capability. Also, this study discusses the entrepreneurial
Palestinian Diaspora and proposes a mechanism and a strategy that enable the
Palestinian Diaspora to be a part of the development in Palestine. This
exploratory study employed both quantitative (a survey) and qualitative
(interviews) methodologies in order to cover the empirical gap. A snowball
sampling was used as a strategy in the distribution process. The quantitative
approach was by distributing a survey among Palestinian Diaspora worldwide,
manually, or electronically, by creating a specific website for this purpose.
The results identified the push-pull factors between Palestinian Diaspora, and
show that Palestinian Diaspora is skilled people with entrepreneurial
characteristics. The results also show high awareness among Palestinian
Diaspora to contribute with the development process through different
mechanisms. A model consists of six main themes was tailored and examined
its validity and reliability, and the correlation between its components, and the
correlation between the model and the independent variables (push-pull, and
re-pull factors), to enable entrepreneurs among Palestinian Diaspora to play a
strong role in the development of Palestine. |
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