Resultados do programa de aceleração de startups SEED junto ao ecossistema de empreendedorismo e inovação de Belo Horizonte

Objective of the study: Analyze results perceived by managers and SEED participants regarding their actions as an agent for fostering the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem of startups in Belo Horizonte.Methodology/approach: Qualitative descriptive research, through individual interviews with managers, participating startups and former program participants, selected by intentional criteria of accessibility and convenience.Originality/Relevance: Managerial and academic relevance for being the first study to present real data on results obtained by SEED, in the light of the perception of managers and participants. Main Results: SEED is effective in its role as the main startup acceleration program in Brazil, maintained by public funds. Greater investment, improvement in the choice of mentors and accelerators with more practical capacity and experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, and creation of an official mechanism that maintains relations with former participants can raise SEED to a global scale.Theoretical/Methodological Contributions: Academic relevance due to the novelty of the approach and scope of the research, and because it is a current theme that has been consolidated in the universe of entrepreneurship and innovation.Social/Management Contributions: Management relevance for validating results achieved by SEED, generating profits for startups when reaching their maturity. As a social relevance, it impacts the development of companies and the region, providing tax collection and job creation, justifying its nature of organization maintained with public resources.

Making sense of the anger of the Gilets Jaunes

While most experts attempt to understand the Gilets Jaunes by establishing the causes of their anger, this paper studies this unprecedented mobilisation by focusing on the anger the protesters express. Their anger is examined by analysing four discursive examples of this feeling through the conceptual framework developed by Koenis. This framework makes a distinction between two types of anger: the anger expressed by the man of ressentiment and the rebel, respectively depicted by Dostoyevsky and Camus. The academic relevance of this paper not only lies in its attempt to bring emotions back into the study of protest but also to reconsider these two ideal frames of anger. The societal relevance, on the other hand, lies in that it depicts the anger of the Gilets Jaunes as being a complex combination of the two frames. This new perspective enables to understand the nuances of anger which drives the protesters rather than just reducing the GJ’s mobilisation as a bare manifestation of this feeling.

Criteria for assessing grant applications: A systematic review

Criteria are an essential component of any procedure for assessing merit. Yet, little is known about the criteria peers use to assess grant applications. In this systematic review we therefore identify and synthesize studies that examine grant peer review criteria in an empirical and inductive manner. To facilitate the synthesis, we introduce a framework that classifies what is generally referred to as 'criterion' into an evaluated entity (i.e. the object of evaluation) and an evaluation criterion (i.e. the dimension along which an entity is evaluated). In total, the synthesis includes 12 studies on grant peer review criteria. Two-thirds of these studies examine criteria in the medical and health sciences, while studies in other fields are scarce. Few studies compare criteria across different fields, and none focus on criteria for interdisciplinary research. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of the 12 studies and thereby identified 15 evaluation criteria and 30 evaluated entities as well as the relations between them. Based on a network analysis, we determined the following main relations between the identified evaluation criteria and evaluated entities. The aims and outcomes of a proposed project are assessed in terms of the evaluation criteria originality, academic relevance, and extra-academic relevance. The proposed research process is evaluated both on the content level (quality, appropriateness, rigor, coherence/justification) as well as on the level of description (clarity, completeness). The resources needed to implement the research process are evaluated in terms of the evaluation criterion feasibility. Lastly, the person and personality of the applicant are assessed from a ‘psychological’ (motivation, traits) and a ‘sociological’ (diversity) perspective. Furthermore, we find that some of the criteria peers use to evaluate grant applications do not conform to the fairness doctrine and the ideal of impartiality. Grant peer review could therefore be considered unfair and biased. Our findings suggest that future studies on criteria in grant peer review should focus on the applicant, include data from non-Western countries, and examine fields other than the medical and health sciences.

Beyond “a contradiction in terms”. Transport museums, research agendas, and public history

Both Transport History and Transport Museums stand at a critical point, this piece argues, with both their academic relevance and public interest and support in the balance. Drawing on recent debate in this journal about the future of Transport History given the recent turn towards mobility, this piece argues that museums and scholars would benefit greatly from the joined up thinking that would allow for new critical perspectives to develop. The challenges of audiences and interpretations, so key to the daily work of museums, fit perfectly with the new perspectives on transport in the past academics themselves are wrestling with, and present exciting opportunities for reflective collaboration.

Peripherality and World Literature

Critiques of World Literature often come with assumptions that are formed with reference to more central cultures’ conceptualization(s) of the relationship between literature, society and politics. As a result, they almost always neglect, perhaps unwittingly, the pluralities of literature in the world, and the specific and unexpected way(s) translated literature functions in diverse contexts. Focused on the condition of peripherality and engaging literary translation, academic relevance, and political impact, this paper addresses some of the critiques with specific examples from a peripheral context, to argue why the study of World Literature matters, and how it can lead to social and political effects that are not visible from the perspective of central cultures.

Political Affiliation on Corporate Governance: International Studies Review and Their Implications for the Russian Corporate Environment

The article focuses upon the problem of political affiliation in corporate governance. It aims to provide insights into theoretical and methodological aspects of the problem applied to the Russian corporate environment. The author evaluates the academic relevance of the problem in international studies, reviews the underpinning fundamental theories, provides an insight into the construct of political affiliation through the lens of corporate governance, outlines the methodology used in the studies of political affiliation to eventually assess the relevance of the problem to the Russian corporate environment.