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Transnational entrepreneurship (TE) is becoming a leading economic activity worldwide, particularly in the area of high technology. A growing number of studies are attempting to address this type of migration, whether in the form of immigrant entrepreneurship or the entrepreneurship of returnees in their homeland. Serbia and Albania have experienced a significant emigration among their highly skilled population. TE is an emerging trend in both countries, but apart from sporadic studies on foreign remittances, there has been no research on carried out on transnational economic activities and transnational entrepreneurship among immigrants or returnees.
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The research was done within the project ‘Transnational Networks, Transnational Entrepreneurship and the Role of the State’, funded by the Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP) and run by the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Predojevic-Despic, J., Pavlov, T., Milutinovic, S., Balli, B. (2016). Transnational Entrepreneurs in the Western Balkans: A Comparative Study of Serbian and Albanian Migrants and Returnees. In: Nadler, R., Kovács, Z., Glorius, B., Lang, T. (eds) Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57509-8_5
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