The recent ‘scientification’ of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a framework for identifying the strategic individual decisions...

Do …nancial constraints have persistent e¤ects on the creation of businesses, or should we expect that forward-looking individuals always save their way out of credit constraints? This paper studies the interaction between savings and the decision to become an entrepreneur in a multiperiod model with borrowing constraints to answer this question. The model has a simple threshold property: able ...

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In the future, if businesses want to innovate, IT will have to play a substantial role. Furthermore, innovating with IT will most likely imply opening up the innovation channel and collaborating with various kinds of external partners, as digital platforms and ecosystems involving various actors arise. According to prior research, emphasizing external innovation collaboration bears the risk of ...

Micro business in Africa including Tanzania does not perform well financially due to various environmental challenges. In this line, entrepreneurial orientations are said improve micro financial performance regardless of unfavourable environment. Despite such importance orientations, there was scanty knowledge on the influence proactive and risk taking behaviour sales costs. Focusing from Conti...

The purpose of this finding is to determine the impact entrepreneurial behavior on performance small businesses (on corn cob in Takalar Regency). This research quantitative. Simple regression analysis was used evaluate hypotheses, while data collection carried out by distributing questionnaires business people. entrepreneurship an important factor improving businesses.