Entrepreneurship is a primary catalyst for economic growth and regional development. Recognizing its importance, state and local policymakers are now devoting considerable resources to fostering entrepreneurship. After a brief discussion of the data and theories of entrepreneurship, this paper presents a framework for thinking about government’s role in the entrepreneurial process. We then exam...

Background: Entrepreneurship as a pillar of the development process in society derives from a socio-cultural context and ethics as a dimension of culture has a vibrant role in entrepreneurship. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify the factors that influence ethical entrepreneurial intention.  Method: A qualitative research approach was conducted using the data base method. The...

This paper investigates the mechanisms through which a cluster policy can enhance entrepreneurship defined as new venture creations. It is based on the sudy of a cluster policy (“BioRegio”) that strongly stimulated new firm creations in biotechnology in Germany after 1996. The process induced by BioRegio at the territory-level is analyzed over a 10 year period (1995-2004). The article identifie...

I develop the ‘surrogate motherhood’ model of entrepreneurship and network evolution. This model suggests that incumbent firms may gestate new spin-off firms by entrepreneurial employees when certain firm-specific and network conditions apply. Additionally, I suggest that the spin-offs keep their cohesive ties to the ‘surrogate mother’ firm well beyond resource dependence arguments would convey...

There is an implicit blindly bubble situation behind the interest and enthusiasm towards the Internet entrepreneurship, so it is necessary for entrepreneurs to make scientific and reasonable assessment about the possible risks before the related decisions made. This research embarks from the perspective of entrepreneurs and focus on the risk factors of entrepreneurship in Internet industry base...

This paper is motivated by the reported poor performance of IS implementations. In contrast to the dominant emphasis on formal approaches such as structured methods, this paper takes a position drawing upon research in management science, organizational science and psychology. It focuses on key personal and organizational capabilities in the IS implementation project, and in particular, entrepr...

Innovation’ has become a buzzword in academic papers, news articles, and book titles, but it is variously defined and is often referred to as ‘invention’ or ‘design’. A consensus of understanding the interrelationships of the concepts and activities pertaining to innovation is needed to guide collective action for innovation. This paper proposes a united view of the innovation process, which ad...

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...