The literature on national systems of innovation (NIS) has neglected the issue of entrepreneurship because of several incompatibilities between the two notions. The Schumpeterian legacy, the current person-centric view of entrepreneurship, and methodological problems related to treating entrepreneurship at the macrolevel, have made it difficult to integrate entrepreneurship into the NIS perspec...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors causing the rural underdevelopment in iran. to fulfill this objective, delphi technique, as a method of refining group opinions and substituting computed consensus for an agreed-upon majority opinion, was used. the study used a series of three steps questionnaires. findings indicated that lack of a coherent strategy for sustainable r...

Abstract Recognizing opportunities enabled by digital technology (DT) has become a competitive necessity in today’s world. However, opportunity recognition is major challenge given the influence of DT, which not only disperses agency across various actors, but also blurs boundaries between customers, companies, products, and industries. As result, traditional entrepreneurship knowledge needs to...

Uncertainty is perceived as the means of removing the obstacles to growth through the activation of Knightian entrepreneurship. A dynamic stochastic model of continuous-time growth is proposed and empirically tested, including equilibrating and creative entrepreneurial activity. We find that uncertainty affects economic growth and the rate of return, and causes structural changes in portfolio s...

The paper investigates the inequalities within entrepreneurship which are hindering Chinese socio-economic development. We take an institutionalist and gender-based approach. We establish the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and create a historical framework from which we examine contemporary female entrepreneurship. We find that females in China often engage in en...

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...

Compared to other disciplines, the field of entrepreneurship can still be described as young and being in a formative stage (Cooper, 1997). Entrepreneurship research is an area that is characterized by the presence of competing and overlapping concepts and theories, such as entrepreneurial orientation (Covin & Slevin, 1991), cognitive alertness (Gaglio & Katz, 2001; Kirzner, 1997), entrepreneur...

The main purpose of this study is to try explain entrepreneurship within the framework brain-based approach (neuroentrepreneurship). In our study, we examined creative thinking and opportunity recognition, which are two characteristics that frequently used define entrepreneurs. Data were collected using Electroencephalography (EEG). sample research consists 35 participants (entrepreneurs non-en...

The prevailing theories of entrepreneurship have typically revolved around the ability of individuals to recognize opportunities and then to act on them by starting a new venture. This has generated a literature asking why entrepreneurial behaviour varies across individuals with different characteristics while implicitly holding the external context in which the individual finds herself to be c...