Recent initiatives both in the UK and at EU level have sought to promote entrepreneurship by reducing the harshness of the consequences of personal bankruptcy law. The authors investigate the link between bankruptcy and entrepreneurship using data on self employment over 13 years and 15 countries in Europe and North America.
This paper addresses theoretical and empirical gaps in the relationships between the nature of institutional origin, firm resources and growth in the context of spinning off ventures from public research organisations.
The authors propose a method, which drives entrepreneurs to identify an increased number of opportunities. They argue that a network perspective on stakeholder management constitutes a powerful
instrument in facilitating entrepreneurs in the discovery of opportunities.
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).