The increased importance of knowledge as a source of competitiveness for modern economies suggests that the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition will be linked to higher growth rates. Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of this organization. In the present paper we investigate whether a new and promisin...

In order to identify the effect of academic entrepreneurial orientation on scientific activity, this work compares the publication performance of entrepreneurial scientists (Edison and Pasteur-scientists) with that of traditional scientists (Bohr and Other-scientists). The majority of contributions found in the literature have generally conveyed that entrepreneurial academics show a better and ...

Developing people’s interest towards starting a business plays a vital role in the former socialist countries in which, for a very long time, private property and free initiative were almost completely annihilated. Therefore, countries like Romania cannot design a sustainable growth model without taking into account the necessary improvements in the human capital factor, through the entrepreneu...

This paper tests a model in which entrepreneurship-specific human capital accumulation through learning-by-doing is the key factor behind entrepreneurial dynamics. I derive testable predictions of the theory that allow it to be distinguished from alternatives. I then exploit the 1997-98 Indonesian financial crisis as a natural experiment that provides exogenous variation in entry into self-empl...

entrepreneurship in the world, especially in western developed countries, the much interest in recent years the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems and integrating the separation of infrastructure services needed by entrepreneurs and governments innovative citizens, industrialists and entrepreneurs to create. a person apart from the idea of an entrepreneur, long way to run and deliver it to t...

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE preparation is not typically part of most undergraduate programs, especially at engineering institutions. Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking requires going beyond teaching business fundamentals and reviewing case studies; it requires learning through practice.2 To support active student engagement in entrepreneurial activi...

Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits. However, it has been argued that the same energy and talent can also be allocated to unproductive ends and reduce total welfare. In this paper we present a...