rapid changes in science and technology have made the uncertainty a distinctive feature of our environment. the main reason for such changes is technology, and entrepreneurs are the technology creators. in our country, technological entrepreneurship, which in most authorities’ opinion is the key to technological and economic development, has not been explored so far. although nearly a decade ha...

Due to the importance of technology entrepreneurs’ competencies in the creation and development of technological businesses, a distinct stream of research has been dedicated to this subject. However, given the nature of suchlike studies, it is difficult to reach a common understanding of the competencies. In fact, there is a need to provide some systematization to achieve advancements in the fi...

We model technological progress as an external effect of organizational design, focusing on how factories, based on labor division, could spawn the industrial revolution. Dividing labor, as Adam Smith argued, facilitates invention by observers of production processes. However, entrepreneurs cannot internalize this benefit and choose labor division to facilitate monitoring. Equilibrium with few ...

While innovation is the hallmark of the information technology (IT) industry, very little research has studied individuals motivation toinnovate either as scientists in research and development (R&D) departments of established firms, or as entrepreneurs startingtheir own ventures. In this research, we develop a game theoretic model based on theories of human capital and information asymmetry to...

We have studied the relationship between optimism, pessimism and entrepreneurial attitudes among university undergraduate students (n = 206). We used the revised Life Orientation Test [1] as a measure of optimism and pessimism and we hypothesized that technological potential entrepreneurs are more optimistic and less pessimistic than non-potential entrepreneurs. Our results show a main effect o...

the ability to develop and maintain an effective network is one of the entrepreneurial competencies. despite recognition of the value of networking, there has been little research into the networks of female entrepreneurs. current evidences indicate the differences between men and women’s networking and in part, women’s weakness to creat and maintain entrepreneurial networking compared to that ...

in the beginning of 1980s named as entrepreneurship decade, a large number of entrepreneurship researchers attempted to determine certain characteristics that distinguished entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs by identifying certain characteristics inherent in potential entrepreneurs in order to predict entrepreneurial behavior. among the characteristics identified, little empirical research ha...