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From entrepreneurship to leadership
No full textEntrepreneurship needs to transition into leadership to advance stakeholders' interests both within and outside a firm. Based on insights from recent advances in leadership theory and practice, we present a simple, yet elegant model called TRY Leadership that identifies three qualities that enable entrepreneurs to be effective leaders in society. The TRY model complements and contributes to the emerging paradigm of responsible leadership to offer an actionable framework of leadership for entrepreneurs
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From latent to emergent entrepreneurship: the knowledge spillover construction circle
Full text linkThe process that turns knowledge into innovation is highly ambiguous and complex. This study merges economic and management perspectives to extend the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship in explaining how the knowledge spillover construction circle works. At this aim it introduces the model of ‘latent and emergent entrepreneurship’ evidencing the strategic role of the entrepreneur in each step of the process that goes from the research of new knowledge to its commercialization
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Knowledge spillovers or R&D collaboration? Understanding the role of external knowledge for firm innovation
Full text linkExtant research has established that firms engage in R&D collaboration and access knowledge spillovers to enhance their innovativeness. We aim to take this conversation in a new direction by seeking to answer the question, ‘How does engagement in R&D collaboration with suppliers, customers, and competitors, both domestically and internationally, as well as access to knowledge spillovers from universities and other open sources, influence a firm's innovation?’ This is the primary goal of our study. The study develops a knowledge‐based view on knowledge collaboration and spillovers, explaining how a firm's decision to collaborate, as opposed to accessing knowledge spillovers, shapes its innovation outputs and propensity to innovate. The theoretical utility of this framework lies in elucidating how the distinct types of knowledge (basic or applied) transferred to a firm when accessing external knowledge create different mechanisms that influence innovation output. By analyzing data on knowledge spillovers and R&D collaboration from the innovation survey of firms in the United Kingdom over the period 2002–2014, we demonstrate that in most instances of knowledge combinations, the cost effect of knowledge sourcing exceeds the complementary effect of knowledge, leading to a firm's choice between R&D collaboration and spillovers. The study contributes to the innovation and R&D management literatures by explaining why this pattern emerges and demonstrating that these relationships are contingent upon the degree of collaboration and the level of knowledge spillovers
Clusters, economic performance, and social cohesion: a system dynamics approach
No full textCluster policies pervade all regions of the world to promote employment growth, innovation and entrepreneurship. Yet, research mostly focuses on cluster economic performance, but less on regional social cohesion, which is important when economic growth coexists with deprivation, poverty and inequality. The paper’s aim is to understand both the economic and the social dynamics of clusters by developing a theoretical model based on system dynamics. It shows that clusters with positive economic performance do not necessarily lead to regional social cohesion. Multiple positive economic-related feedback processes can be mitigated by negative social-related feedback processes. Implications for academics and policy-makers are proposed
Academic policy and entrepreneurship: a European perspective
No full textTwo main trends or developments could be identified as leading toward a drastic change in the higher education sector. First, the rapid increase and importance of the industrialized and knowledge based sector led to a radical shift away from the Arts & Humanities towards all fields of the natural sciences, engineering and the emergence of new fields like management and finance. Secondly, globalization and the interrelatedness of markets and the increased competition for scarce resources, in particular knowledge and human capital. This special issue of the Journal of Technology Transfer is dedicated to these challenges and issues from a mostly European perspective
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts: Historical transformations or rhetorical devices?
No full textFollowing the call for an assessment of recent developments and an understanding of the state-of-the-art of entrepreneurial ecosystems, this paper investigates the historical evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts to untangle their necessary and specific dimensions and policy implications. It aims at reducing the gap between the increasing academic and policy interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems and the theoretical grounds upon which research and policies are based. To this end, it traces back the phenomena of ecosystems, clusters, and industrial districts to their origin, using critical realism ontology and historical organization studies as research methods. This paper contributes a historical and theoretical framework that provides academic rigor for understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems and policy rationales for evaluating economic development policies.Fil: Rocha, Hector. Universidad Austral; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Audretsch, David B.. Indiana University; Estados Unido
Religion, social class and entrepreneurial choice
No full textWhile considerable concern has emerged about the links between religion and economic growth, little is actually known about how religion and social class impact the decision making of individuals. Using institutional theory and social dominance theory, this paper examines the influence of religion and social class on individuals' occupational choices. Based on a large-scale database from India, this paper finds that while some religions are relatively conducive to self-employment, some others have a negative impact on self-employment choices. Furthermore, individuals belonging to social classes that are lower in the social hierarchy are less likely to be self-employed. The role of both religion and social class in influencing the likelihood of choosing self-employment suggests an important link between religion, social class, and occupational decision-makin
The weaker sex? A tale of means and tails
No full textOne of the most commonly held beliefs prevalent in entrepreneurship research is that women-led ventures tend to generate lower earnings than men-led ventures. We contend that this thinking emanates from empirical analyses that obscure the variation in entrepreneurial performance across the earnings distribution. Relying solely on the mean as a measure of central tendency conceals the heterogeneity among so-called underperformers. Using density plots from a nationally representative database, we demonstrate that women-led ventures perform better at some quantiles of the earnings distribution, contrary to the common myth that men-led ventures consistently outperform them. Our study debunks this myth and contributes to entrepreneurship research that adopts a gendered perspective by showing that the reality experienced by women entrepreneurs is not as dismal as it appears when compared to focusing exclusively on the mean. Our study has implications for policymakers, who need to adjust their policy approach by designing targeted policies explicitly incorporating the heterogeneity inherent in entrepreneurship.</p
University evolution, entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness
No full textThis book aims to bring together different contributions highlighting how the recent changes that modify universities' activities, such as the necessity to internationalize and crucially rely on third party funding, and the new entrepreneurial trajectories stemming from the recent economic-financial crisis, contribute to emphasize the existing differences between successful and lagging regions, as occurred at a country level (e.g. Southern Europe). This book should be of interest to economists, sociologists, political scientists as well as to policy makers and practitioners involved in the creation of value at a local level
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