This study analyzes the innovative orientation of the Croatian entrepreneurs. Innovative orientation is represented by the perceived extent to which an entrepreneur’s product or service or technology is new, and no other businesses offer the same product. The sample is extracted from the GEM Croatia Adult Population Survey dataset for the years 2003-2013. We apply descriptive statistics, t-test...

Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which should potentially reduce the occurrence of problems and affect finance composition. However, experience of business failure might result in additional effects. This analysis therefore investigates th...

This paper attempts to reconcile the risk-bearing characterization of entrepreneurs with the stylized fact that entrepreneurs exhibit conventional risk aversion profiles. We propose that the disparity arises from confounding two distinct dimensions of uncertainty: demand uncertainty and ability uncertainty. We further propose that entrepreneurs will be risk averse with respect to demand uncerta...

Pressure on farmers to behave more ‘entrepreneurial’ is increasing. Psychological and social science research therefore has examined what characterises identifying as entrepreneurs. A previous study in Finland suggested that farmers' self-identities may conflict with the public paradigm describing entrepreneurs instead of food providers. Different expectations towards farming cause identity iss...

Since 1995 the teaching of entrepreneurship has become something of a growth industry in Scotland, largely as a result of the Scottish Business Birthrate Strategy initiated by Scottish Enterprise. Many of the Centres for Entrepreneurship that exist to co-ordinate entrepreneurship teaching in Higher Education support teaching by the case method and are active in engaging entrepreneurs in the tea...

Background: Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the development of any country. Entrepreneurship is seen as the driving force behind economic development and the identification of opportunities and the use of resources, and entrepreneurs are those who, by recognizing opportunities, ensure success in manufacturing, business, and services. However, it should be noted that the criterion fo...

Nascent Entrepreneurs Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up. JEL Classification: J23

economists look at the entrepreneurship from the prospective of profitability, investment, risk, and insight supporting the economical development but it seems that, in modern societies, entrepreneurship`s function is beyond the economical bounds. according to the stage and importance of entrepreneurship which is known as the society’s economic and culture evolution engine, it is necessary to d...

Our research explores an understudied topic in the field of entrepreneurship: the insecurity experienced by a group of entrepreneurs known as necessity entrepreneurs. Although little attention has been paid to this phenomenon, in the entrepreneurship literature, necessity entrepreneurs, more than ever, represent a very important social group in an increasingly tough economic and social climate....