Knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship

The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

The prevailing theories of entrepreneurship have typically revolved around the ability of individuals to recognize opportunities and then to act on them by starting a new venture. This has generated a literature asking why entrepreneurial behaviour varies across individuals with different characteristics while implicitly holding the external context in which the individual finds herself to be c...

The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

According to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, people start a new firm because they are not able to commercialize their ideas and knowledge within the context of an incumbent firm or organization. Entrepreneurship therefore serves as a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the firm or organization where that knowledge was created to its commercialization in the organizat...

A strategic perspective of entrepreneurship

Contends that the E-V-R (environment-values-resources) congruence model provides an ideal framework for examining what entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial managers must achieve strategically in order to create and sustain organisational effectiveness and success. E-V-R shows how the environment is a source of opportunities and threats – external key success factors; and that resources constitute ...

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Issues and Challenges

There is a wide variety of types of entrepreneurs, but no one formula for success. However, there are many successful entrepreneurs. Understanding why some entrepreneurs succeed while others fail is important to help future entrepreneurs in their efforts to be ssuccessful. Entrepreneurship is the economic engine driving many nations” economies in the global competitive landscape. Entrepreneursh...

Entrepreneurship in Strategic Management Theory