Research on entrepreneurship potential targeting university students is emerging. However, it is in general focused on one school-one course. Few studies analyze the differences in entrepreneurial propensity between students of different subjects. In this paper we analyze the magnitude of this...

Entrepreneurial activities are seen as key drivers of innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Recent efforts are being pursued by several entities, including governments to promote entrepreneurial skills amongst the youngest. However, to design effective programs, policy makers have to...

Despite the vitality and dynamism that the field of entrepreneurship has experienced in the last decade, the issue of whether it comprises an effective network of (in)formal communication linkages among the most influential scholars within the area has yet to be examined in depth. This study...

The theoretical literature identifies three important entrepreneurial dimensions,namely discovering new opportunities, responsiveness to uncertainty, and coordination of a firm.In the empirical literature, past experience has been identified as having an important influenceon organizational...

Necessity spin-offs are organized by employees of incumbent firms to escape deterioratingjob conditions. This paper proposes a conceptual model of the spin-off process. Necessityspin-offs are distinguished from opportunity spin-offs on the basis of their triggering events.An empirical analysis...

Based on new data, this paper studies invention disclosure, licensing, and firm formationactivities of Max Planck Institute directors over the time period 1985-2004, and analyzestheir effects on scientists’ publication and citation records. The results are consistent withprior findings that...

The objective of this paper is to relate entrepreneurship to a theory of the humanmind, setting both within an evolutionary perspective. The first requirement,therefore, is to indicate what this perspective implies. As a generic concept, I takeevolution to be the self-transformation of a system...

IntroductionEntrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially unevenprocess, and thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions andnations. Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship is a key element of evolutionary economics...

Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries.The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on smallsamples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairlyrepresentative of the structure of small business in India....

Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with theirjobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satised with their lives as awhole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life,such that the fullling job...