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Unleash and Stimulate Entrepreneurial Creativity

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Creating Economic Growth

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The hurdle for small businesses in getting a start anywhere in the world often comes down to the same issue: credit. If you can’t get a loan, you can’t get your enterprise up and running. If you’re in the stone-carving business, for example — like the artisans in the Carrara region of Tuscany, Italy, sources of marble for Michelangelo’s David and La Pietà — how do you get a new business going when you don’t have a financial track record, don’t have collateral, and nobody knows you at the bank?

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Magnani, M. (2014). Unleash and Stimulate Entrepreneurial Creativity. In: Creating Economic Growth. Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427052_3

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