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...

The concepts of public and political entrepreneurship were introduced in relation to administration the 1960s. Early examples constructed institutional change (Eisenstadt, 1964; 1980), bridging role entrepreneur between different spheres local communities (Barth, 1972), carrying out urban redevelopment social programs government (Dahl, 1961; Murphy, 1971). Although used later describe a variety...

Abstract Background and Purpose : The concept of entrepreneurship within the public sector is one most fiercely debated areas entrepreneurial research. It has been studied across several academic disciplines such as in management, administration political economy, among others. However, while output increased, we found no prior studies providing a clear mapping field. Therefore, this research s...

The aim of the chapter is to provide practitioners and researchers, who wish to investigate academic entrepreneurship in details, with the basic characteristics of the phenomenon as an introduction to further exploration. As university entrepreneurship is rooted in the broader entrepreneurship theory, the investigation encompassed a set of definitions, types, and processes pertaining to both in...

While much attention has been devoted to analyzing how the institutional framework and entrepreneurship impact growth, how economic policy and institutional design affect entrepreneurship appears to be much less analyzed. We try to explain cross-country differences in the level of entrepreneurship by differences in economic policy and institutional design. Specifically, we use measures of econo...

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...