Despite the domination of entrepreneurship approach in individual, organizational and national levels and because of global environmental competition, industrial/manufacturing firms and corporations especially in the developing countries seem to be unable to follow up this approach in their own organizations. A relevant research in 130 Iranian industrial firms in 2000, examined the entrepreneur...

Future undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering curricula need to be revitalized. This revitalization is based on promoting and practicing computational thinking. Computational thinking could seed entrepreneurship if we provide our computer science and software engineering students with entrepreneurial skills and discover potential entrepreneurs among them. Entrepreneurship devel...

tthe study area included parts of the villages in behabad, of bafq county, yazd province, and pool research was conducted in 2008 and 2009. research findings show that rural workers and islamic councils have relatively been successful in development of rural entrepreneurship, and local people believe that entrepreneurs, officials, experts and local commentators, islamic council and rural worker...

The paper examines the effect of specific institutional factors on entrepreneurial activity. In the course of the examination, we encounter various viewpoints regarding entrepreneurship and different needs of national politics. The research objective is to determine whether institutional factors influence early-stage entrepreneurial activity. There is a broad array of opinions on appropriate se...

Li, Lixing, and Wu, Xiaoyu—Housing price and entrepreneurship in China Housing price has increased dramatically in China during the past decade. The appreciation of house value could relax credit constraint and thus encourage entrepreneurship. However, a house serves as both an important investment channel and a prerequisite for marriage in China. The continuous high return of investment in hou...

Much of the recent literature on improving education in the United States seeks to promote entrepreneurship as the solution to raising educational quality and equity. But, the historical record documenting substantial and sustained departure from conventional educational practices is scant despite numerous attempts at entrepreneurial innovation. This paper contends that the challenge of entrepr...

We find new empirical regularities in the business cycle in a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries for the period 1972 to 2007; entrepreneurship Granger-causes the cycles of the world economy. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial cycle is positively affected by the national unemployment cycle. We discuss possible causes and implications of these findings.

This article explores how the phenomenon of entrepreneurship can reinforce itself but also tends to carry the seed of its own eventual demise. We review evidence from theory and empirical studies of these ‘breed’ and ‘kill’ tendencies at individual, inter-individual, firm, industry, regional and national levels of analysis. Policy implications are discussed, especially with regards to current a...