It is almost a truism in entrepreneurship research that the entrepreneurial process begins most basically with the discovery of opportunities (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000). Entrepreneurship scholars have also noted that opportunities have distinctive conceptual properties (Venkataraman, 1997). Even so, it has gone almost unnoticed that the basic and distinctive nature of opportunities calls for ...

In the current competitive world, organizations can reach competitive advantage which support entrepreneurship by providing the required tools. One of the most important tools for developing entrepreneurship which was neglected in previous studies is organizational knowledge management. The present paper aims to shed light on the role and importance of knowledge management in sport entreprene...

In this paper, we present a newly developed analytical thermodynamic theory and show that it offers a simple understanding of entrepreneurship. The approach we present in the paper is different from previous work on the subject in that we not only borrow the mathematical tools from, and the analogy to thermodynamic but treat economics in general and entrepreneurship in particular as a thermodyn...

This article explores the potential use of Science Fiction Prototypes (SFPs) as a vehicle to promote creative thinking and innovation in the business and technology development process. In particular, the paper describes a tool, ‘‘The Imagination Workshop’’, which business people can use to drive near and far term product innovation, futuristic business and entrepreneurship. A key contribution ...

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...

Although there is an increasing consensus within the research community that entrepreneurship should be perceived as an organising process involving many, little attention has been paid to the genuinely collective features of entrepreneurship. Here entrepreneurship is presented as a phenomenon that is as much the outcome of a joint effort as an individual endeavour. Different images of collecti...