The aim of the paper is to investigate to what extent access to finance explains differences in entrepreneurial activity across European Union (EU) member countries. We use a dataset containing information across countries and time to investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in twenty-five EU members over the period between 2007 and 2013. Our sample comprises both periods of dif...

Purpose: From a skills perspective, the academic field of entrepreneurship has grown to become key element in university studies. Determining whether these exist among students and how foster them is higher education. To this effect, aim study determine entrepreneurial skills’ level on different bachelor’s degrees taught at Faculty Business Economics Sciences University Girona. Design/methodolo...

The topic of entrepreneurship has been the subject of a considerable amount of academic interest over the last twenty years. Despite a vast amount of published work there have been very few attempts to study the entrepreneurial process. In other words, we know little of the what happens as an entrepreneur moves from idea to the objective reality of a fully functioning business. A more recent ph...

Our research reports on an ongoing study of the impact of entrepreneurial interventions within first-year engineering courses on changes in the mindsets of engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset in our study is operationally defined as a more growth oriented mindset versus a fixed oriented mindset. This operational definition and an accompanying mindset measurement instrument was develop...

Bai, W. 2017. The Best of Both Worlds. The Effects of Knowledge and Network Relationships on Performance of Returnee Entrepreneurial Firms. Doctoral thesis / Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet 184. 105 pp. Uppsala: Företagsekonomiska institutionen. ISBN 978-91-506-2616-2. In an increasingly globalized business world, international human mobility and its association with entre...

Introduction Junior Enterprises are nonprofit entities run by undergraduate students. The Junior Enterprise Antonio Paes de Carvalho (EJ-APC) was established in 2010 with the major goal of stimulate the entrepreneurial skills of students in the life sciences area by the development of biotechnological products and services. Since human resources trained in basic science at the university are po...

IFRN – Mossoró is a Brazilian technical education institute that develops several activities to encourage entrepreneurship, such as a curricular discipline about enterprise management and the existence of a business incubator. Despite efforts, the business incubator does not produce the expected effects. Therefore, what predisposes students to start their own business? If literature review expl...