Silver Entrepreneurship: a Golden Opportunity for Ageing Society

• Autorzy: Ivana Barković Bojanić , Aleksandar Erceg , Jovanka Damoska Sekuloska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper aims to discuss the notion of silver entrepreneurship in the context of the silver economy. Policy-wise knowing who silver entrepreneurs are and what it takes to support them is an essential step to productively managing the ageing population and promoting an age-ready but age-friendly approach to creating a sustainable economy and society in the new demographic reality. The paper provides a theoretical and empirical literature review of silver entrepreneurship to identify the current state of the art. It also identifies selected policies and strategies aiming to foster silver entrepreneurship, representing a more inclusive and age-diverse entrepreneurial landscape. The silver entrepreneurship proves to be a challenging research field due to the elusive nature of entrepreneurship itself and the lack of universal definitions for this phenomenon. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Ageing of the population; Silver economy; Entrepreneurship

PL

Starzenie się społeczeństw; Srebrna gospodarka; Przedsiębiorczość

• Czasopismo: Economics and Business Review
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: 10 (24)
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 153--178

Twórcy

autor

Ivana Barković Bojanić

• J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek

autor

Aleksandar Erceg

• J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek

autor

Jovanka Damoska Sekuloska

• University of Information Science and Technology "St. Paul the Apostle", Ohrid

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.18559/ebr.2024.1.1068