We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data (over the period 1990-2002) from a large group of developing countries and focus in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint effect of trade reform and entrepr...

Previous definitions from the literature do not explore and identify: the ultimate outcome of technology entrepreneurship; the target of the ultimate outcomes; the mechanism used to deliver the ultimate outcomes; or the nature of the interdependence between technology entrepreneurship and scientific and technological advances. Moreover, a new definition should explicitly link technology entrepr...

The phenomenon of ‘migrant entrepreneurship’ refers to business activities undertaken by migrants with a specific socio-cultural and ethnic background or migrant origin. The studies on migrant entrepreneurship in both the US and Europe have recognized the significant share of immigrants in SME activities. In the context of migrant entrepreneurship several scholars have highlighted the impact of...

For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

Through entrepreneurship education, engineering students are increasingly being prepared to work for startup companies or launch their own ventures. Understanding and utilizing the language relevant to entrepreneurship is essential to establish legitimacy and participate fully in the entrepreneurial community. Identifying the entrepreneurship-related lexicon in which engineers should be fluent ...

College entrepreneurship education relatively lags behind in china at present. The main reason is that the lack of qualified teachers. For the construction of teachers' team training, firstly analysis the characteristics of the entrepreneurship education level, and then divide into two relatively independent levels which are basic entrepreneurship education theory and comprehensive practice. Ac...

This paper introduces a case study of the entrepreneurship studies in the Faculty of Telecommunication and e-Business at Turku University of Applied Sciences. There are three levels of entrepreneurship studies in our faculty: a) What is entrepreneurship? –to raise the awareness and motivation towards entrepreneurship, b) Student co-operatives and Support centres for training the students with t...

Metaphors are powerful tools for sensemaking, sensegiving and theory development, but they are often concealed in academic writing. This paper uncovers two metaphors underlying entrepreneurship discourse and research – elixir and mutagen. The elixir metaphor is uncovered by examining critiques of entrepreneurship research and serves as a compact description of problematic aspects entrepreneursh...