Abstract Given that recent research on entrepreneurial behavior and success has established skill variety as a central human capital factor, researchers, educators, policymakers have turned their interest to deeper understanding of the formation variety. Based theory competence growth approach in developmental psychology (highlighting long-term, age-appropriate, cumulative skill-growth processe...

Purpose This study focuses on extra-curricular start-up programs for students at higher educational institutions. It explores the social and situated learning experiences of who participate in programs, as well how processes outcomes entrepreneurial are potentially shaped by this context. Design/methodology/approach The follows multiple cohorts have participated an program managed three collabo...

Purpose Entrepreneurial ecosystems provide the context for start-ups to access resources. The authors investigate reliance of on their entrepreneurial ecosystem and driving factors behind proportion local actors (belonging ecosystem) within overall set relationships (their business ecosystem). Recognizing limited relational capacity firms, focus three differentiating firm characteristics: size,...

We study the starting resources of start-ups, which develop and market new products or services based upon a proprietary technology or skill. We define these companies as research-based start-ups (RBSUs). We look at how technological, financial and human resources at founding cluster together to form different starting resource configurations. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of RBSUs in B...

Entrepreneurial intention and its subsequent achievement in starting one's activity are processes subject to numerous internal external influences, which should be studied depth due their great importance for local global economies. The present research is holistic since it encompasses the entire process that generates entrepreneurial behaviour. On one hand, objective identify influence trainin...

IFRN – Mossoró is a Brazilian technical education institute that develops several activities to encourage entrepreneurship, such as a curricular discipline about enterprise management and the existence of a business incubator. Despite efforts, the business incubator does not produce the expected effects. Therefore, what predisposes students to start their own business? If literature review expl...

This study aims to produce a Model Construction of Student Entrepreneurial Intentions Based on Proactive Personality, Self-Efficacy, and Anticipatory Cognitions. While the specific objective is identify factors that influence generate The population used in this were students Faculty Economics Business from several best Islamic tertiary institutions city Medan with criteria these universities h...

What role does personality play in the pervasive gender gap in entrepreneurship across the globe? This two-study analysis focuses on self-employment in the working population and underlying gender differences in personality characteristics, thereby considering both single trait dimensions as well as a holistic, configural personality approach. Applying the five-factor model of personality, Stud...