Entrepreneurship, Tuvalu, development and .tv

This paper comments on ‘Entrepreneurship and the Dot TV Phenomenon’ by Baldacchino & Mellor (2015) who suggest that state-run entrepreneurship is behind the success of .tv. To examine this, I briefly review the early years of .tv, the government’s administration of .tv, the actual impact of .tv income, and the numerical weight of .tv income compared with other sources of government revenue. I debunk several .tv-related myths and explore the media’s enduring .tv attraction. I also comment on topics covered by the authors that are unrelated to .tv – such as subsistence, exports, development models – identifying inaccuracies, issues in need of clarification, misleading descriptions, or material that I find stretched beyond credibility. Connecting .tv success to entrepreneurship might be a reasonable premise, but I doubt its plausibility. Notions of entrepreneurship, however, can be conceptually different. Perhaps this could be a starting point to re-examine such differences, some of which can be slender, in the context of island- and sovereignty-related assets and income

Advertising · Business · Context (archaeology · Credibility · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · Geography · Government (linguistics · Phenomenon · Political science · Positive economics · Premise · Revenue · Subsistence agriculture · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Echinoderm biology and ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Finance · Marketing

• Pathways, motivations and challenges

  Open Access•Shen, Shawn Shen et al.•GeoJournal•2010

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