This study attempts to investigate the effects of entrepreneurial orientation and learning orientation on SMEs’ performance. A total of 200 SMEs from the electronic and electrical sector, and 250 SMEs from food and beverage industries were chosen randomly. The results of this study show that entrepreneurial orientation dimensions (innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking) and learning ori...

This paper examines the combined effect of asymmetric information and private entrepreneurial risk aversion on investment decisions. The standard optimal debt contract becomes modified by the introduction of insurance and a risk premium that entrepreneurs demand due to the uncertainty of their investment returns: the private equity premium. In general equilibrium, the private equity premium may...

For a long period of time some different hypothesis have been published about arteriosclerosis but none of them has discovered the pathogenesis and effective treat­ment of this entity. By elemination of risk factors it is not clear that the disease process stops or reverses. Pre­ventiona and treatment of risk factors should start before manifestation of arteriosclerosis sympthoms. The result of...

Research Summary Anticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case study of innovative start-up in the space industry. We quickly saw institutions imposed formidable barriers to implementing entrepreneurship from innovation. Curious about how, why and extent this situation, widened our other start-ups, CEOs existing businesses, incubator, a technology transfer of...

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional differences in unemployment rates, but also in unemployment duration and the human capital of the unemplo...

Given entrepreneurs’ special role in the economic growth and development, many developed and developing countries are attempting to motivate more number of people who have entrepreneurial characteristics towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses in Ilam Province, Iran. In this researc...

introduction: social intelligence and entrepreneurship are among features leading to the academic and career achievements. due to the importance of this issue, the present study was performed to determine the level of entrepreneurial skills in students of kermanshah university of medical sciences and its association with social intelligence. methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study by...

Entrepreneurial motivation plays a key role in the establishment of Food Processing start-ups India. The main purpose this research is to determine Motivation Establishment and examine underlying on success factors start-ups. This study descriptive cross sectional study. target population entrepreneurs who were involved food processing Erode district, Tamil Nadu. was conducted from August 2019 ...

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...