This chapter argues that a combination of entrepreneurship and innovation is a crucial factor to the long-term sustainability of e-commerce and ebusinesses. Entrepreneurship and innovation are positively related to each other and interact to help an organisation to flourish. The chapter takes an integrative approach to exploring the synergies between entrepreneurship and innovation and to analy...

Technological infrastructure plays a critical role in country’s development and progress, enabling economic growth, innovation, improving citizens’ quality of life. This study explores the potential digital entrepreneurship transformation reducing unemployment Oman. With increasing reliance on technologies, governments need to invest technological that can meet evolving needs society. investiga...

This chapter offers a review on modern entrepreneurship analysis, against the background of regional development. After a conceptual discussion on the importance and the measurement of entrepreneurship, the contribution discusses success factors and determinants of entrepreneurships. Next, focus is laid on the geography of entrepreneurship, while also due attention is paid to the relevance of n...

Techno-Entrepreneurship referred by many as ‘Technology Entrepreneurship’ usually denotes a vehicle or means to facilitate prosperity in individuals, firms, regions, and nations. The study of techno-entrepreneurship therefore, serves an important function beyond satisfying intellectual curiosity. Technoentrepreneurship lies at the heart of many important debates, including those around launchin...

The study of Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) is gaining increasing interest within the field of Entrepreneurship. Much research has been carried out, mainly focusing on identifying determinants and outcomes of CE. Scholars suggest that the term “corporate entrepreneurship” encompasses two types of phenomena: corporate venturing (CV) and strategic renewal. CV is seen as a way in which firm-level...

Social entrepreneurship has raised increasing interest among scholars, yet we still know relatively little about the particular dynamics and processes involved. This paper aims at contributing to the field of social entrepreneurship by clarifying key elements, providing working definitions, and illuminating the social entrepreneurship process. In the first part of the paper we review the existi...

The presence of a gender gap in entrepreneurship has been well studied in previous literature. There are various contributing factors, including differences in human capital, which has been reviewed less so than social capital. Through a career survey of Wharton MBAs, this research paper 1) examines the presence of an entrepreneurship gender gap; 2) identifies human capital variables that predi...

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate, or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics give rise to misleading inferences regarding high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. To unambiguously...

this research, which is practical and descriptive-correlational in terms of purpose and data collection, respectively, evaluates the effect of intellectual capital on the process of technological entrepreneurship (pte). the research population includes the managers and experts working in the iranian research organization for science and technology, which are 375 individuals. using stratified sa...

introduction: rapid urbanization and reduction of rural population are common problems among developing countries. unemployment and rural migration are mentioned as main reasons for these problems. according to the 2011 census in iran, the rural population decreased to less than one-third, or about 29 percent of total population. demographic change of the country and the need for jobs will exac...