Identifying and nurturing entrepreneurial potential among youth can have long-term implications for American economic development. Prior research has not addressed whether education and enterprise experience will affect the development of entrepreneurial talent prior to the collegiate level. This research concludes that entrepreneurship education and enterprise experience can affect characteris...

Regulatory focus theory delineates how people engage in self-regulation, the process of bringing oneself into alignment with one’s standards and goals. At any given point in time, people may engage in self-regulation with a promotion focus or a prevention focus. When promotion-focused, people’s growth and advancement needs motivate them to try to bring themselves into alignment with their ideal...

This study examined entrepreneurial competencies as a viable pathway for improving the innovative performance of SMEs in Nigeria’s informal sector and contingent roles business environment. A survey research design was used to gather data from 296 entrepreneurs who operate Nigeria. Based on findings SEM-PLS multivariate analysis, concluded that competencies, especially organizing, conceptual, l...

Abstract The COVID-19 crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and infection control measures taken have extended beyond affecting health issues to impact economic activity worldwide. In this structured literature review, focus is specifically on how has impacted entrepreneurial activity. review focuses early empirical that primarily relied data collected during first wave of pand...

Future undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering curricula need to be revitalized. This revitalization is based on promoting and practicing computational thinking. Computational thinking could seed entrepreneurship if we provide our computer science and software engineering students with entrepreneurial skills and discover potential entrepreneurs among them. Entrepreneurship devel...