The paper introduces three patterns for use by university managers and lecturers for creating of Master of Science (MSc) program in engineering and science faculties, developing entrepreneurial skills: • TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (TEI) CURRICULA – provide a valuable and computational set of courses to guarantee the competence of graduate students in the turbulent environment; •...

The SMEs sectors in Iran play a very vital role in economic development and entrepreneurship growth, because the SMEs sector is totally private. In this paper, we find that the main causes of the weakness and disability of the SMEs sector are based on a lack of entrepreneurship talents and training. We try to find out the role of government-based training institutes and as well as semi-governme...

There is an implicit blindly bubble situation behind the interest and enthusiasm towards the Internet entrepreneurship, so it is necessary for entrepreneurs to make scientific and reasonable assessment about the possible risks before the related decisions made. This research embarks from the perspective of entrepreneurs and focus on the risk factors of entrepreneurship in Internet industry base...

Recent research on entrepreneurship has focused largely on macro-level environmental forces. Although researchers adopting this focus have rightly criticized much of the existing empirical research on the role of human motivation in entrepreneurship, we believe that the development of entrepreneurship theory requires consideration of the motivations of people making entrepreneurial decisions. T...

As universities and research hospitals move increasingly toward translational research and encouragement of entrepreneurship, more attention must be paid to management of conflicts of interest (COIs) if the public trust is to be maintained. Here, we describe COI policies at two institutions that aim to structure an academic environment that encourages innovation while protecting academic values.

The paper introduces three patterns for use by university managers and lecturers for creating of Master of Science (MSc) program in engineering and science faculties, developing entrepreneurial skills: TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION (TEI) CURRICULA – provide a valuable and computational set of courses to guarantee the competence of graduate students in the turbulent environment; TEI...

This paper examines digital entrepreneurship in born digital and grown digital firms. Of late, digital entrepreneurship has garnered renewed attention from national leaders, practitioners, and academics due to the phenomenal success of a number of digital startups and the radical disruptions brought by the innovative use of technologies. Despite the significance and the promises of digital tech...

This article reverses the traditional perspective on creation in entrepreneurship: rather than ask how entrepreneurs create, we focus instead on how they destroy. Using an abductive approach, we surmise that to create breakthrough innovations, entrepreneurs engage in subversive activities that enable them to destroy some of the rules and values preventing their project from expanding. Subversio...

Although there is an increasing consensus within the research community that entrepreneurship should be perceived as an organising process involving many, little attention has been paid to the genuinely collective features of entrepreneurship. Here entrepreneurship is presented as a phenomenon that is as much the outcome of a joint effort as an individual endeavour. Different images of collecti...

there are more than one million agricultural cooperatives members in iran. in the meantime, the rapid development of the animal husbandry in iran has forced cooperatives to meet the members’ scientific and practical needs for completing production cycle of the dairy industry. livestock production covers a wide spectrum of livestock activities including bee keeping, silkworm raising, and aquacul...