Moral and Institutional Foundations of Sustainable Technological Entrepreneurship

Institutional Flexibility and Entrepreneurship

This paper addresses a theoretical puzzle regarding how institutions enhance individual entrepreneurial behavior. We leverage a unique research setting to extend institutional theory into the realm of entrepreneurship by introducing and testing the concept of institutional flexibility. More flexible institutions foster entrepreneurship in allowing, rather than restricting individual choices. Th...

Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Sponsorship of Common Technological Standards: the Case of Sun Microsystems and Java

Institutional entrepreneurship implicit in a firm's sponsorship of its technology as a common standard is beset by several challenges. These challenges arise from a standard's property to enable and constrain even as potential competitors agree to cooperate on its creation. Our exploration of Sun Microsystems's sponsorship of its Java technology suggests that standards-in-the-making generate se...

Technological Innovation , Entrepreneurship and Development

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...

Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship

Relevance of technological innovation and entrepreneurship to biotechnology in Iran

One of the latest and most controversial areas of science is biotechnology. Genetic engineering concerns with the manipulation of DNA molecules to modify plants, animals and other creatures. Scientists are now able to isolate a gene or genome in an animal or plant to another one, based on the traits they want to transfer. The movement of a gene from a living creature to another one is called th...