The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is ...

Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth. Using panel data on 60 countries spanning the period 2003-07 this paper establishes that (i) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the start-up costs are ...

Entrepreneurs are people who create new businesses, which help create new jobs for people. They help in intensifying competition, with the help of technology they master in increasing productivity and thus contributing in the development of the country, followed by economic growth. So it can be said that entrepreneurship is good for economic growth .The paper will justify how far this stands tr...

Surrogate entrepreneurship is conceptually compared to spin-off entrepreneurship and then three incidents of surrogate entrepreneurship using publicsource technology are examined relative to the conceptual framework.

The research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive and destructive activities. This allocation has important implications in the developing world, particularly for countries hosting conflict or recovering from conflict. The alloca...

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship among previously unemployed immigrant entrepreneurs. Results from a cohort study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden reveal that family resources are important for immigrants to integrate economically into a country....

Thzis article evaluates the emergent academicfield of entrepreneurship to better understand its progress andpotential. We apply boundary and exchange concepts to examine 97 entrepreneurship articles published in leading management journals from 1985 to 1999. Some evidence ivasfound of an upward trend in the nwnber ofppublished entrepreneurship articles, although the percentage of entrepreneursh...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth at the country level. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which provides comparative data on entrepreneurship from a wide range of countries. An important element of this paper is that we compare the effects of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth in high income, transition and l...

This contribution discusses a theory of entrepreneurship, its empirical base, and its implications. First, it argues that a psychological approach is necessary to understand entrepreneurship. Second, it argues that any theory of entrepreneurship should use active actions as a starting point — entrepreneurship is the epitome of an active agent in the market (rather than a reactive agent). Third,...

This paper analyzes the evolution of African American entrepreneurship by comparing the patterns of development of African American entrepreneurship and immigrant entrepreneurship. Whereas most literature focuses on African American culture as the reason for limited entrepreneurial success compared to certain immigrant groups, this paper examines how social, economic, and political forces have ...