Theories of political entrepreneurship usually focus on the construction of coalitions necessary to change policy. We argue that political entrepreneurs who are unable to secure favored policies may redirect their efforts to a “higher tier,” attempting to change the rules of the game to enable the exploitation of future political profit opportunities. We present a taxonomy of three levels of po...

The domain definition of entrepreneurship research is “in play” as the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division prepares to submit a revision to its 1995 Domain Statement; and as “inclusive” vs. “distinctive” adjectives characterize the debate. In this essay, I argue that the inclusiveness/distinctiveness question itself poses a false dilemma detrimental to the development of entrepreneu...

A particular relevance of intellectualization of entrepreneurship is proved in the article. It is offered the concept of "intellectual securing for entrepreneurship". The intellectual securing provides the organization and self-organization of continuous information and knowledge torrents in the system "education-science-entrepreneurship". Intellectual entrepreneurship is considered as the resu...

Globally, many women are still disadvantaged when it comes to business opportunities. Entrepreneurship development programs, specifically designed to assist women entrepreneurs, are assisting in solving this problem to a certain extent. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that motivate females to start their own business. Females, from three different groups (2013, 2014 and 201...

The problem that this chapter tries to solve, is to find the relation between entrepreneurship, university research, and economic growth. The contribution of the present analysis is that, we aim to underline a) the role of university entrepreneurship in economic growth, b) to identify the reasons why this role is underdeveloped in the European South compared to the European North and c) to sugg...

The abundance of active and innovative entrepreneurs has been ascribed as one of the main reasons for Taiwan’s miraculous economic development. This paper expounds upon the past 60 years and how Taiwanese business behaviour has been manifested by adaptive entrepreneurship. Taiwan’s entrepreneurs exercise their alertness to opportunities, use guerrilla strategies to profit whenever possible, man...

This paper aims towards better understanding the role of entrepreneurship in fragile states, which despite the practical interest and relevance has been somewhat disregarded in academic research. Given the necessity to support policy formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this paper is to scrutinize existing i...