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- ItemOpen AccessA CASE STUDY OF THE NSU STARTUPS NEXT (NSUSN): FOSTERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN BANGLADESH(North South University, 2022-12) Samuel Mursalin; Ridwart Monk; Bente Formai; Helal AhammadUniversity business incubators (UBIs) give universities a dedicated entrepreneurship hub where young entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas receive mentorship, resources, and networking opportunities to lay the foundations for successful ventures and utilize the university's research outputs. Three years into the journey. North South University NSU Startups Next (NSUSN) has considerably impacted the Bangladeshi start-up ecosystem with its entrepreneurial education quality and business model. creating quality spin-off ventures and contributing to social and economic development. This article provides a case study for North South University's NSU Startups Next (NSUSN) which works with limited resources to support young star-up founders and provide value to the university entrepreneurs, the institution, society, and the economy. The study also outlined the model of NSU Start-up Next and provided insights on the outcomes obtained through its cohort-based system. The paper applies David 1 Miller's 'The Campus and the Ecosystem' framework to explain how a university's entrepreneurial ecosystem interacts with external stakeholders.
- ItemOpen AccessTHE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OIL PRICE AND INFLATION IN BANGLADESH: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS(North South University, 2022-12) Sakib Bin Amin; Maimaz Afiabi Atiqtee; Farheen Rishia Butte Benazirs; Helal AhammadBangladesh is one of the fastest growing developing economies in the South Asian region with very little fossil fuel endowment. As a result, the country typically relies on imported energy sources. Existing media reports point out an increase in global energy prices in recent years. An increase in global oil price simultaneously increases the rate of inflation in the oil importing countries as well. Hence, the aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the short-run and long- run causal relationship between oil price in the international market and domestic inflation in Bangladesh. Using annual data ranging from 1980 to 2021, the paper conducts a Johansen's cointegration test to identify the variables' cointegrating relationship. Moreover, Granger Causality and VECM causality tests confirm a unidirectional causality runs from oil price in the international market to domestic inflation in Bangladesh. both in the short run and in the long run.
- ItemOpen AccessIMPACT OF ENERGY USE ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN BANGLADESH: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS(North South University, 2022-12) Anta Atalantial; Sakib Bin Amin; Helal AhammadBangladesh achieved significant progress in the energy sector from 2009 to 2019, and it has helped the country to improve the socio-economic conditions of women. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no empirical time-series studies that explicitly address the relationship between electrification and women's empowerment. For an emerging country like Bangladesh, where women's work is often undervalued and society seems to be biased towards men, the demonstrated relationship between electrification and women's empowerment may have unveiled the immense impact that this might have had on the society. Hence, this paper investigates and quantifies the impact of electrification on women's empowerment, taking the general view that increasing electrification in Bangladesh results in empowering women in a community. Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Dickey-Fuller- GLS (DF-CLS), Johansen Cointegration methods have been used in this paper to explore this relationship. Moreover, the Granger-causality-test, Vector-Error-Correction Model (VECM) tests have also been applied to quantify this relationship. Our results support the view that energy use has a potential impact on the female laborforce in Bangladesh's both in the long and short run. Moreover, it also has a statistically significant effect on the female literacy rate in the long run. The Dynamic OLS (DOLS) results show that a 1-unit increase in energy consumption can lead to a 0.20 percent increase in female labor force participation in the long run other things remain unchanged. So, access to adequate electricity can provide the opportunity for employment creation to the poor female. To do so, the Bangladesh government should pay more attention to the development of off-grid electrification to better the socio-economic conditions of the unprivileged rural women in Bangladesh.
- ItemOpen AccessAN INVESTIGATION OF THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SELF-EFFICACY AND ALERTNESS ON REGULATIVE, COGNITIVE, AND NORMATIVE DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION(North South University,, 2022-12) Md Reaz Uddinf; Md Shaifid Islam; Helal AhammadThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between institutional environment and entrepreneurial intentions and to determine whether self-efficacy and alertness moderate this relationship. Drawing on institutional theory, we set hypotheses and test them by applying regression based on a primary dataset of students collected from the local public and private universities. The results show that cognitive institutions positively influence entrepreneurial intentions; thus, they inspire students to set up more entrepreneurial minds. Furthermore, we find direct positive effects of entrepreneurial alertness and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions. Still, we do not see any moderating (interaction) effects of the institutional environment on entrepreneurial intentions. The research results suggest that Bangladesh needs to develop cognitive institutions to encourage student& entrepreneurial intentions. Future research should be expanded for retesting the empirical validity of the included moderators by using longitudinal datasets.