Entrepreneurship and innovation

This report provides an overview of recent facts and figures on start-ups in the Netherlands, techno start-ups in particular and the overall link between entrepreneurship and innovation.

Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II

Analyzes the educational backgrounds and career trajectories of immigrant entrepreneurs, finding that advanced education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is correlated with high rates of entrepreneurship and innovation

Franchising as a Way of Creating Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The article analyses franchising as a business model based on an economic relationship between the parties. The discussion of the early forms of franchising and of factors stimulating its development in Poland and the world is followed by the presentation of data showing franchise growth trends in Poland for, respectively, domestic and foreign brands. The article highlights the advantages of franchising, which allow it to resist economic crises, stimulate entrepreneurship and innovativeness, and minimise business risks. It also offers a number of comments, observations and conclusions on the synergies that both firms and the Polish economy as a whole can derive from franchising.Artykuł traktuje o franczyzie jako koncepcji prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej na podstawie uzgodnionego przez strony układu ekonomicznego. Dostarcza informacji o genezie franczyzy, uwarunkowaniach jej rozwoju w świecie i Polsce. Prezentuje udokumentowane tendencje wzrostu polskiego rynku franczyzowego z uwzględnieniem rodzimych i zagranicznych marek franczyzowych. Zwraca uwagę na atuty franczyzy pozwalające jej oprzeć się kryzysom gospodarczym, stymulować rozwój przedsiębiorczości i innowacyjności oraz minimalizować ryzyko biznesowe. Zawiera również komentarze, spostrzeżenia, sugestie i konstatacje na temat efektów synergicznych uzyskiwanych w firmach i całej polskiej gospodarce z tytułu zastosowań franczyzy

Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation

There is an increasing interest of research on the area of corporate entrepreneurship recently. But much focus is given to specific areas. like the definitional  issues  in  the  field  of  corporate  entrepreneurship (Sharma  P,  Chrisman  JJ  1999) ,developing and refining an instrument (Kuratko et al,1990; Hornsby et al,2002;Morris et al 2001; Tasika. M.Davis 2006;  Adonisi 2003),linking corporate entrepreneurship to strategy, structure, and process(Lumpkin and Dess 1999) the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and strategic management (Barringer and Bluedorn,1999). An investigation of the internal organizational entrepreneurial climate and its relationship with innovativeness is generally scarce. Thus, by developing a model which relates corporate entrepreneurial variables with innovation, this study investigates the functional relationship between the two. Furthermore, the study tries to analyse the prevalence of corporate entrepreneurship and the level of innovation in Ethiopian leather footwear industry. Using analytical survey design in a cross sectional time, 6 leather footwear companies were selected judgmentally from Addis Ababa. The descriptive analysis showed that all the corporate entrepreneurial variables are below average on a five point likert scale measure. The level of innovation is also rated as average on a similar scale. Results of correlation matrix also indicated a positive association between the corporate entrepreneurial variables and innovation. furthermore, Regression analysis showed that reward system as well as time availability contributed the highest for innovation than the rest of the variables and evaluation of the regression model indicated around 48 %  of the variance in innovation can be explained by the model and that the model was statistically significant. The findings in this study are so important for managers and other policy makers to find out how organizational and managerial variables could be modified in order to facilitate innovation. It is recommended that other studies should try to replicate these findings on different contexts. Key Words: Competitiveness, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Ethiopia, Innovation, leather

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of entrepreneurial clusters, our understanding of what works and how it works is quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation

Venture Capital Backed Growth

The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists not only finance but also advise start-up entrepreneurs and thereby add value to new firms. The paper demonstrates how a productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth.venture capital, double moral hazard, innovation, growth

Entrepreneurship and Gender Equality in Academia – a Complex Combination in Practice

This article takes as its starting point two current trends in academia – the promotion of academic entrepreneurship and innovation and the promotion of gender equality – and discusses how different gender equality perspectives are interwoven, or not, into academia’s transformation processes towards entrepreneurial universities. On the basis of an analysis of 26 interviews conducted with personnel at two Swedish universities, the article investigates how concepts of academic entrepreneurship and innovation on the one hand and gender equality on the other hand are constructed and filled with meaning as well as how they are entangled and what effects are produced by this way of thinking and acting. Our analysis reveals tensions between the two policy goals, together with tensions within each goal. An overall conclusion is that articulations and ways of speaking about the policy goal of academic entrepreneurship and innovation were to some extent interwoven with the policy goal of gender equality, especially in the broader perspectives on academic entrepreneurship. However, the articulations of strategies and practice of the two policy goals essentially ran parallel, and were not entangled with one another. This is because strategies or substantial initiatives for merging gender equality into the agenda of academic entrepreneurship and innovation were lacking

The 'Mystery' of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Review of: Mitra, Jay (2011) Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development: An Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 9780415405157 <http://repository.essex.ac.uk/4334/