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.

Entrepreneurship is one of the main factors economic growth, which ensures sustainable development countries. Educational institutions and corporate universities develop programmes to entrepreneurial competencies students employees. Companies are introducing new functional divisions whose activities related revealing internal competencies. This paper provides a systematic review research in ord...

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...

This paper reports design experience and execution of the authors’ curriculum entitled “Chemical Entrepreneurship”, actually dealing with “technology entrepreneurship emphasizing chemistry-related enterprises”, and being multi-disciplinary. Uniqueness of the curriculum shows up in its scope and addressees concerning age and levels of experience. The attendees are scientists and engineers and ex...

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 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 ...

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,...

Funding information Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; SSHRC Research Summary: We evaluate a technology entrepreneurship training program by comparing career decisions among applicants accepted into the program with unaccepted applicants who are program finalists. We fin...