This paper addresses the concept of serendipity in entrepreneurship, defined as search leading to unintended discovery. It conceptually delineates serendipity, showing how it is related to the entrepreneurship literature on prior knowledge and systematic search. The paper also discusses how serendipitous entrepreneurship relates to some aspects of evolutionary theory, socio-economic institution...

This study examined the dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial intent of undergraduate American and Canadian entrepreneurship students. It was found that American entrepreneurship students had lower levels of dispositional optimism (one’s positive expectation for the future), a defining characteristic of successful entrepreneurs, when compared to Canadian entrepreneurship students. Moreover...

Policy interest since the early 1980s has focused in different ways on the creation of a large, productive, taxable economy – in which entrepreneurship plays a role for employment, income growth and innovation. The current understanding of various forms of entrepreneurship remains incomplete, focusing largely on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship. However, destructive entrepreneurship...

Social entrepreneurship is a growing phenomenon, both in practice and in the scientiÞ c community. The main goal of this research is to examine speciÞ c personal characteristics that might support one’s decision to pursue social entrepreneurship as a career choice. The research sample consisted of 114 students of two graduate entrepreneurship programs: Economics of Entrepreneurship at the Facul...

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

Purpose – This paper considers the requirements for an industry sector approach to entrepreneurship education – The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector. We present a modified Process Framework for Entrepreneurship Education focusing specifically on ICT. The primary components of the Process Framework are described (inputs, process and content, assessment and outputs) to assis...

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is ...

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the start-up costs are ...

Entrepreneurs are people who create new businesses, which help create new jobs for people. They help in intensifying competition, with the help of technology they master in increasing productivity and thus contributing in the development of the country, followed by economic growth. So it can be said that entrepreneurship is good for economic growth .The paper will justify how far this stands tr...

Surrogate entrepreneurship is conceptually compared to spin-off entrepreneurship and then three incidents of surrogate entrepreneurship using publicsource technology are examined relative to the conceptual framework.