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This paper will focus on successful entrepreneurship and what it takes to win as well as how incubators facilitate the process of growing start-up and early stage companies or ventures. An incubator case study is included.
Despite theoretical arguments for distinguishing between novice and serial entrepreneurs, empirical evidence on their differences remains inconclusive. This paper extends existing research, using a unique dataset of primarily immigrant Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. It finds that serial entrepreneurs displayed higher aspirations, embedded and diverse social networks, reliance on collaborators, access...
Entrepreneur is the soul of entrepreneurial activity, and is a core issue of entrepreneurship research. Most of the existing literature investigate "who is the dominant entrepreneur" issue from the individual characteristics and natural resources perspective. This paper is based on the enterprise contractual arrangements perspective, reviews and comparatively analyzes the """"capital...
The growth of the Indian economy lies on entrepreneurs. There is a need for developing entrepreneurship among the engineering college students from the starting of their technical education. In addition to the engineering education, they should also be equipped with the entrepreneurship skills through promotion schemes and program like business incubators. The business incubators program should develop...
The growth of the Indian economy lies on entrepreneurs. There is a need for developing entrepreneurship among the engineering college students from the starting of the education. In addition to the students exposed to engineering education, they should be equipped with the entrepreneurship skills through promotion schemes and program like business incubators. The business incubator program should...
The ability to innovation of high growth firms is dependent on the knowledge of the firm's entrepreneurs. Three key components including entrepreneur, knowledge and network are widely recognised as common and important elements of the innovation, much of the literature has been dominated by studies focused on one or two components in isolation. This paper seeks to synthesise a more complete and integrative...
Focusing on the moderating role of entrepreneurial cognitive biases, the article investigated the influence of organizational learning on performance in entrepreneurial firms. By surveying a sample of 173 samples, compared with some prior studies, the study showed some different finding: (1)Entrepreneurial access to information bias couldn't moderate the relationship between organizational learning...
Focusing on the moderating role of entrepreneurial cognitive biases, the article investigated the influence of organizational learning on performance in entrepreneurial firms. By surveying a sample of 173 samples, compared with some prior studies, the study showed some different finding: (1)Entrepreneurial access to information bias couldn't moderate the relationship between organizational learning...
The paper presents findings of a study of entrepreneurial start-up organisations in the ICT sector. The start-up organisations were co-located in a new business incubator managed by a university in the north-west of England. The study was aimed at understanding the factors and approaches that impacted the ability of the start-ups to manage customer development and, consequently, generate revenue....
Entrepreneurs require information, capital, skills, and labour for start-up, survival and success in business. This paper examines the kinds of information needed by those who aspire to become entrepreneurs, the level of importance of the information to their businesses, the sources and methods of accessing the business information. Questionnaires were distributed to 400 potential entrepreneurs of...
When starting up firms, entrepreneurs will easily be in the situation of being away from predetermined goals or criteria. How entrepreneurs cope with errors is critical to the development of their firms. The research used the free software, Mx, and explored the error orientation of entrepreneurs in four industries, including IT and software, catering and hotel, machinery and parts, and construction,...
This paper presents the results of a survey of entrepreneurial firms in the Zhongguancun early-stage incubator. Firms were asked about their knowledge on corporate ethics, self-description on ethical behavior. The results show that most of ZGC entrepreneurs regard corporate social responsibility as philanthropy donation and repaying to the society and motherland while making profit. Results also indicate...
Hurun report has been widely considered as an important guide to keep track of changes in Chinese entrepreneurs since created in 1999. This paper describes the biographical characteristics focused on three aspects of age, gender and educational level, then analyzes entrepreneurial motivation, the industry distribution and wealth trends based on the data of Hurun in 2003~2008. It is the interpretation...
As far as the new paradigm of social network was concerned, the paper began with the background and analyzed the definition of the concept from the standpoint of entrepreneurs. Then it outlined the core of the social network theory, summarized indicators and methods of measurement for the social network, reviewed the study of the social network as independent variables from the acquisition of information...
Research on innovation networks has increasingly considered their internationalization as a natural later stage in their evolution, necessitated by augmented competition and acceleration of technology cycles. A complex dynamic ensues in such later stages as firms and other actors in the innovation network begin to pursue their own interest in the innovation space, as it grows from local to global...
Entrepreneurs as the most important drivers, determine the whole enterprise's innovation capabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Existing literatures concerned the relationship between innovation capabilities and entrepreneurs, consistently emphasize the important role of entrepreneurs; yet they do not clarify the question of "how"-how entrepreneurs leverage the innovation...
Social capital and cognition are crucial to opportunity identification in entrepreneurship. But there is a vast theoretical and empirical literature that poses the question of why some exploit opportunities and some do not. The possible reason lies in entrepreneurpsilas cognitive bias. Based on the work of Carolis and Saparito, we use 177 samples to test the relationship between social capital and...
Emigrated intellectual, skilled and technological people are an invaluable resource for the development of their respective home countries. Their contributions to economic development are substantial through platforms of the knowledge economy, and via knowledge networks. This paper discusses knowledge networks interactions positioning Diaspora entrepreneurs of countries in middle and low income countries...
Fresh ideas from startups are a driver of the electronic business world. Software engineering students who will be a part of this E-world therefore should benefit from a working knowledge of new businesses. Their school can organize opportunities to help ensure that familiarity. This paper describes results after four years of organizing such endeavors. We believe that those results for students are...
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