Funding information Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; SSHRC Research Summary: We evaluate a technology entrepreneurship training program by comparing career decisions among applicants accepted into the program with unaccepted applicants who are program finalists. We fin...

The aim of the chapter is to provide practitioners and researchers, who wish to investigate academic entrepreneurship in details, with the basic characteristics of the phenomenon as an introduction to further exploration. As university entrepreneurship is rooted in the broader entrepreneurship theory, the investigation encompassed a set of definitions, types, and processes pertaining to both in...

While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship by differences in economic policy and institutional design. Specifically, we use measures of econo...

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data (over the period 1990-2002) from a large group of developing countries and focus in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint effect of trade reform and entrepr...

Previous definitions from the literature do not explore and identify: the ultimate outcome of technology entrepreneurship; the target of the ultimate outcomes; the mechanism used to deliver the ultimate outcomes; or the nature of the interdependence between technology entrepreneurship and scientific and technological advances. Moreover, a new definition should explicitly link technology entrepr...

The phenomenon of ‘migrant entrepreneurship’ refers to business activities undertaken by migrants with a specific socio-cultural and ethnic background or migrant origin. The studies on migrant entrepreneurship in both the US and Europe have recognized the significant share of immigrants in SME activities. In the context of migrant entrepreneurship several scholars have highlighted the impact of...

Abstract The FDI-entrepreneurship nexus has received growing attention over the last decade. However, empirical findings on their relationship have been inconsistent at best. This study seeks to examine how inflows of Greenfield investment influence entrepreneurship host country. Using panel data from 110 countries during period 2001-2018, we find that level brings detrimental impact total and ...

Entrepreneurship is a topic that has become more relevant in recent years and the Covid-19 pandemic made it even so. Indeed, context of 2020 pandemic, some entrepreneurial initiatives have risen as an option for employment income given lack job alternatives or consequence displacement from previous economic activities (necessity-driven entrepreneurship); at same time, various changes brought ab...

Scholarly interest in necessity entrepreneurship has risen steadily over the last four decades, with much of research this area focused on distinguishing individuals who are pushed into by negative factors, such as unemployment, from those pulled it its attractiveness. Yet, although past extended knowledge considerably, dichotomous framing commonly employed studies realm limited theoretical dev...