Increasing the number of high growth firms (HGFs) is now a major focus for industry policy in developed countries. However, existing approaches are proving ineffective. Simply creating supportive framework conditions is insufficient. Creating favourable environments for business start-ups is not leading to the creation of more HGFs. And transactional forms of support for HGFs (e.g. financial as...

Abstract The impact of negative personality traits on entrepreneurial intention and behavior has become a research focus in the field entrepreneurship. This study aimed to identify influence dark tetrad nascent mediating role intention. used partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) test hypotheses sample 347 undergraduate postgraduate university students from China. results t...

In seeking to better understand strategic entrepreneurship in the 21 st Century, this paper develops an agent-based simulation model that allows researchers to study different opportunity recognition strategies in a globalized knowledge economy. The simulation takes account of international knowledge spillovers and shows the comparative payoffs of each entrepreneurial strategy, with distinctive...

Article history: Received 1 August 2014 Accepted 1 August 2014 Available online 28 August 2014 Against the background of demographic change, gray entrepreneurship has become more prevalent.When gray entrepreneurs chose to leave paid employment to become self-employed, it is of concern for companies whomay lose highly capable older employees. One of the reasons for this can be a failure to under...

This conceptual paper introduces a dynamic learning perspective of entrepreneurship that builds upon existing ‘dominant’ theoretical approaches to understanding entrepreneurial activity. As many aspects of entrepreneurial learning remain poorly understood, this paper presents key conclusions from in-depth empirical work and synthesises a broad range of contributory adult, management and individ...

Entrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – startup employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both individual and contextual-level perspectives of entrepreneurship, we examine how interests in being a founder or a joiner form prior to the first career transition. We find that individuals with founder a...

Purpose – Entrepreneurial learning is an important area of enquiry which is not well understood in either the academic study of entrepreneurship or the practical development of new entrepreneurs. The article aims to explore two questions: first, how do people learn to work in entrepreneurial ways – are there significant processes and experiences in their learning, which can be related to existi...

This paper develops an analytical framework, namely the concept of entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems by integrating knowledge intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) and innovation system (IS) concepts. It first uses a composite index methodology to measure knowledge intensive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities at the national level. It then assesses the influence of the...

This article focuses on entrepreneurship in economic geography and aims at a systematic investigation of regional variation in knowledge-based entrepreneurial activity. We develop and test a three-phase structural model for regional systems of entrepreneurship after introducing a systems approach to entrepreneurship. The model is built upon the absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover ...