Entrepreneurship is an important economic process in both developed and developing worlds. Nonetheless, many of its concepts appear to be difficult to 'operationalize' due to lack of empirical data; and this is particularly true with emerging economy. The data set described in this paper is available in Mendeley Data׳s "Vietnamese entrepreneurs' decisiveness and perceptions of the likelihood of...

The SMEs sectors in Iran play a very vital role in economic development and entrepreneurship growth, because the SMEs sector is totally private. In this paper, we find that the main causes of the weakness and disability of the SMEs sector are based on a lack of entrepreneurship talents and training. We try to find out the role of government-based training institutes and as well as semi-governme...

there has been relatively little empirical analysis of the role played by cultural-social-economic policies to promote entrepreneurship. governments, for instance, conduct different entrepreneurship promotion policies. financial assistance and easing of bureaucratic rules are provided to improve the entrepreneurship process in a country. entrepreneurs benefit from education and skills, which ar...

The paper investigates the inequalities within entrepreneurship which are hindering Chinese socio-economic development. We take an institutionalist and gender-based approach. We establish the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and create a historical framework from which we examine contemporary female entrepreneurship. We find that females in China often engage in en...

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...

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in eas...

The policy shift of United Arab Emirates (UAE) from dependence on oil resources to other sources for the growth of its economy is opening opportunities for Entrepreneurship as a career. In this context, it is important to understand the factors that would facilitate the process of entrepreneurial value creation. The process model of entrepreneurship is used as the basis to understand the variou...

What is the role of entrepreneurship in economic development? At a minimum the answer should be able to explain the role of entrepreneurs in the structural transformation of countries from low income, primary-sector based societies into high-income service and technology based societies. More broadly though, it should also be able to explain the role of entrepreneurs in the opposite pole of sta...

With the aim of helping to improve the teaching of entrepreneurship in high schools, this study set out to identify appropriate teaching strategies. A selective group of 22 experts in the area of teaching entrepreneurship was extensively interviewed. The interviews were   semi-structured and the data collected from them were coded using an open, axial, and selective coding system. Results show ...

Higher education plays a very important role in the development of entrepreneurship as one of the most important concepts in the present era. Higher education, through the transfer of applied knowledge, the creation of skills and abilities required in the field of entrepreneurship, cultural context and research development and support, introduces the concepts of entrepreneurship into the univer...