entrepreneurship

The authors observe a faster growth in the number of nonemployer firms vis-a-vis employer firms from 1997 to 2001 in the U.S. The diverse speed of net entry may be due to particular internal organisation of the two types of firms and the effect that this has on the reactions to market uncertainty.

Using cross-sectional data on 36 countries that participated in the 2002 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the authors attempt to establish if financing sources and business costs have different impact on three different types of entrepreneurial activity.

New knowledge with commercial potential is continually created in academic institutions. How is it turned into economically valuable businesses? This paper argues that the transfer is an entrepreneurial process.

This research addresses the needs of local policymakers to understand the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in creating an environment where local economic growth can thrive.

The paper explores the ways in which entrepreneurship education can benefit the
professionals involved in university industry technology transfer.

The authors analyze the pattern of the partnerships projects, approved between 2000 and 2003 in the framework of the Portuguese Operational Program for the Economy. By using HOMALS and K-means cluster analysis, the authors characterise the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and identify typical clusters for the PPP projects.

In this paper, roles are attributed to different stages of innovation and organizational development. A central theme is the relation between discontinuity, in radical innovation (exploration), and continuity, in application, diffusion and adaptation (exploitation).

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany, this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors – both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and hindered by risk aversion, while being male is a supporting factor.

The paper examines the contingent value of entrepreneurs networks to survival likelihood of Internet ventures, and the dynamics of entrepreneurs networks over time. The empirical data are composed of the longitudinal surveys of 94 Internet ventures in Beijing, China.

This study examines the impact of entrepreneurs’ network structure and knowledge homogeneity/heterogeneity of their network members on product development, and revenue growth of software ventures in China and Russia. The study found that structural holes and knowledge heterogeneity affect positively product diversity in interactive ways.