Open Innovation and Serial Entrepreneurs

Selection and Serial Entrepreneurs

Malaysian entrepreneurs propensity to use IT innovation

Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs

The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the real option theory with the theory on entrepreneurial market entry. An important and novel feature of ou...

Serial Entrepreneurs, Venture Failure, and Challenges to Learning

The authors wish to thank Deepak Hegde for sharing data for this project. Abstract: As part of the recent interest in serial entrepreneurship, studies have investigated the presence (or absence) of learning benefits from a first to a second venture. We extend this literature by integrating behavioral concepts on attribution and learning from failure that highlight the differences in behavioral ...

Farmer-Entrepreneurs, Agricultural Innovation, and Explosive Research and Development Cycles

Private sector research and development (R&D) in food processing has seen a growing share of agricultural R&D. This paper analyzes market and technological links between farmer-entrepreneurs and food processing firms. It is shown that processing sector R&D tends to display explosive cycles. To avoid explosive cycles, the processing sector sets the R&D growth path and its target. Dynamic adjustm...