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L'Impresa al femminile, dall'imprenditività all'empowerment per l’innovazione.
No full textL’impresa al femminile offre un’analisi rigorosa delle dinamiche che caratterizzano l’imprenditoria femminile italiana, esplorandone il contributo economico e sociale in un contesto di crescente attenzione globale verso la parità di genere. Le autrici esaminano il tema con uno sguardo approfondito, ma anche multidimensionale, che unisce teorie economiche, analisi delle politiche europee di supporto e storie di successo concrete, fornendo un quadro esaustivo e stimolante per studiosi, politici e imprenditori.
Il volume si distingue per la prospettiva interdisciplinare e critica, che supera i tradizionali confronti di genere e ne propone una visione integrata. Risponde, dunque, all’esigenza di promuovere la comprensione di un fenomeno in rapida evoluzione, offrendo spunti pratici e teorici per tutti gli stakeholder interessati a valorizzare l’inclusione nel settore economico. Attraverso l’analisi di casi virtuosi, il testo dimostra come l’imprenditoria femminile stia trasformando il concetto stesso di impresa, ponendo un forte accento sulla sostenibilità, sull’etica e sull’impatto sociale
Discouraged entrepreneurs and persistence in local entrepreneurship. The Italian case, 2001-2008
No full textItaly is characterized by large territorial differences in entrepreneurial rates. The main aims of this paper are to provide a better understanding of the factors affecting these differences and explain the reason of their persistence over time. The persistence of territorial differences may depend on the differences in explanatory variables of entrepreneurial rates or on the presence of path-dependent effects. For the empirical analysis, we consider the creation of new firms in Italy from 2001 to 2008 at territorial level (103 provinces) and disaggregated by sector of activity. Using the adult population as normalizing variable, the entrepreneurial rate is defined as the total number of new firms in a year on the adult population at the beginning of the same year. We find a negative effect of unemployment on entrepreneurial rates that confirms the predominance of the discouraging effect of unemployment on the refugee effect. Moreover, local unemployment has a negative impact on persistence thus suggesting that the refugee effect hold only as a second order condition
Incorporating non-academics in academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams: the vertical diversity that can make the difference
Full text linkTo enhance the development of academic spin-offs, surrogate (external) entrepreneurs are often added to the entrepreneurial team comprising academics. Existing research focused on entrepreneurial team diversity (horizontal member differences) and has mixed results. Vertical member differences (i.e., inequality) between academics and non-academics are not addressed. However, strategic decision making is one of the main responsibilities of an entrepreneurial team. Decision-making power, as reflected in ownership, in particular, is thus of the essence. Based on a sample of 164 Italian academic spin-offs, this article investigates the impacts of both horizontal and vertical heterogeneity of entrepreneurial teams on the firms’ performance. The findings confirm that surrogate entrepreneurs generally make a positive contribution to academic spin-off performance but become counter-productive when their presence overpowers that of academics
An empirical analysis of the relationship between university investments in Technology Transfer Offices and academic spin-offs
No full textThe aim of this paper is to analyze the role of university Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) in contributing to the creation and the performance of academic spin-offs (ASOs). More specifically, it investigates the relationship between resources invested in TTOs in term of employees and the creation and growth of ASOs. The empirical analysis refers to Italy, where since 1999 academicians have been allowed to be actively involved in setting up companies for the ‘industrial use of research’. We used data on ASOs and resources invested by Italian universities in TTOs during the 2002–2011 period to investigate if and to what extent such investments contributed to the birth and growth of ASOs. We also controlled the results using information on university and on local context, in which university is located. The results of the empirical analysis show that in a first phase academicians reacted more promptly than universities to the opportunities offered by the new legislation, which may in part be due to the organizational rigidity that characterizes Public Administration in Italy. However, the empirical analysis also shows that after this initial phase the size of the TTOs (in terms of employees) has had a positive influence on the number of new ASOs (i.e. birth), but not on the performance of ASOs (i.e. growth), which is influenced by both long-term investments in research (i.e. the quality of research results) and other variables linked to the regional and national contexts, such as the presence of incubators or the level of economic development. Our results regard a widely studied topic and should provide incremental findings for the community of entrepreneurship scholars and relevant implications for policy makers and TTO managers
Effects and Outcomes of Entrepreneurship Education in Italy. Evidence from the Case of clab by Università Politecnica delle Marche
No full textThe creation of new firms and businesses is seen as a key factor in reaching economic goals at the regional and national levels. Universities can support entrepreneurial dynamics by increasing the motivation and competence of their graduates to become individuals involved in innovative and entrepreneurial activity. Many initiatives and educational programs on entrepreneurship are increasingly becoming more action-oriented, emphasizing the aspect of learning by doing. The aim of this paper is to assess the effects and the outcomes of an Italian educational program about entrepreneurship named Contamination Lab (clab), which has been implemented so far in several Italian universities. We specifically consider the clab experience at one medium-sized University, Università Politecnica delle Marche (upm), which was launched in 2014. Considering the newness of the investigated phenomena, this is a qualitative study that takes an exploratory approach. The reference population for the study comprises 450 students who took part in the clab at upm between 2014 and 2020. Data were collected through an e-mail survey carried out in 2020. The results show that the participation in the program improved the entrepreneurial intention of students, and some of them were supported in starting a new business. Although the number of entrepreneurial programs at the university level has grown considerably over the past two decades, the effects and contributions of such entrepreneurial educational initiatives in Italy are still not completely clear. This paper represents a first attempt to evaluate the first effect (perceived by students) and the first outcomes of a clab program (in terms of number of start-ups and gestation activities carried out by students)
Emergence of new firms: A test of the resource‐based view, signaling and behavioral perspectives
Full text linkThe resource-based view, signaling, and behavioral perspectives focus on different theoretical mechanisms through which human capital and the behavioral characteristics of nascent entrepreneurs, in combination with insider and outsider financing, may influence the emergence of new ventures. This work tests the relative explanatory power of these different theoretical perspectives. We estimate a mediation model to disentangle the direct effect of nascent entrepreneur personal characteristics on new firm creation from their indirect effects, mediated by the amount of insider financing committed to new ventures and access to greater outsider financing. Our empirical results are based on data from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED II) and improve our understanding of the drivers of new firm creation and their underlying mechanisms. Our findings support the resource-based view and the behavioral perspective in our sample of nascent entrepreneurs, but do not provide evidence of the signaling perspective
The influence of individual perception and social recognition of entrepreneurship on female business activation. Evidence from Italian GEM survey
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Developing technological capabilities for Industry 4.0 adoption: an analysis of the role of inbound open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises
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