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Agricultural sector foreign direct investment and economic growth in Ghana

The study seeks to establish the relationship between foreign direct investment to Ghana’s agriculture sector and economic growth with secondary data mainly sourced from the World Development Indicator. The te...

Authors: Dadson Awunyo-Vitor and Ruby Adjoa Sackey

A maturity model for software startup ecosystems

Resulting from the digital revolution of the last decades, multiple startup hubs flourished across the globe in the past 10 years. Healthy environments for the development of innovative, nascent digital enterp...

Authors: Daniel Cukier and Fabio Kon

Labour productivity among small- and medium-scale enterprises in Uganda: the role of innovation

Using the 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey data for Uganda, this paper employs the quintile estimation technique to explain the relationship between labour productivity and innovation among SMEs. Innovation i...

Authors: Ibrahim Mike Okumu and Faisal Buyinza

Emerging health technology firms’ strategies and their impact on economic and healthcare system actors: a qualitative study

A growing number of announcements on new and innovative medical devices are reported each year by economic actors. However, very few new technologies are successfully acquired and adopted by healthcare actors....

Authors: Mathieu Beaulieu and Pascale Lehoux

Effects of international marketing environments on entrepreneurship development

Entrepreneurs all over the world seek ways of introducing their products to international markets; unfortunately, the international marketing environment poses a lot of opportunities and threats to foreign ent...

Authors: M. E. Agwu and H. N. Onwuegbuzie

Empirical study on innovation motivators and inhibitors of Internet of Things applications for industrial manufacturing enterprises

Industrial manufacturing enterprises in export-oriented economies rely on product or service innovation to maintain their competitive advantage. Decreasing costs of computing power, connectivity and electronic...

Authors: Timon B. Heinis, Jan Hilario and Mirko Meboldt

Entrepreneurship among parents

The present study investigates the relationship between the number of children in the household and mothers and fathers’ propensity to become and remain owners of limited liability businesses. We started by id...

Authors: Lars Kolvereid

Modeling the impact of entrepreneurial attitude on self-employment intention among engineering students in Ethiopia

Entrepreneurship is a worldwide phenomenon with economic growth across the globe that is rendered by the emergence of new and innovative business start-ups. Thus, the main objective of this research was to mod...

Authors: Mesfin Mulu Ayalew and Shumet Amare Zeleke

Response to the global financial crisis: a follow-up study

Firm response to decline has seen renewed interest based on the impacts of the global financial crisis. Here, we investigate the long-lasting effects of decline on the innovativeness of firms and, ultimately, ...

Authors: Eric Hansen and Erlend Nybakk

Enterprise innovation in developing countries: an evidence from Ethiopia

Enterprise innovation has gained the interest of development policymakers and scholars as the bases for the industrial development. This study comprehensively analyzes the drivers of enterprise innovation in d...

Authors: Megersa Debela Daksa, Molla Alemayehu Yismaw, Sisay Diriba Lemessa and Shemelis Kebede Hundie

A role for the state in the digital age

Past and potential contributions of the state to innovation and the creation of the digital economy need to be understood now, more than ever. The state is under attack, and its role in innovation and technolo...

Authors: Nagy Hanna

Expeditionary energy economics (e3): the securitization of energy entrepreneurship during megacity counterinsurgencies (a NATO perspective)

The rapid urbanization around the world has generated a tremendous interest in the study of megacity insurgencies. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new field of study—of expeditionary energy economics ...

Authors: Ion A. Iftimie

Developing stereotypes to facilitate dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government

Social enterprises and government share the ultimate goal of solving societal problems, which provides a lot of potential for collaboration between the two parties. While the local government level is the most...

Authors: Maarten Hogenstijn, Martha Meerman and Joop Zinsmeister

Multiple peer effects in the diffusion of innovations on social networks: a simulation study

Peer effects in innovation adoption decisions have been extensively studied. However, the underlying mechanisms of peer effects are generally not explicitly accounted for. Gaps in this knowledge could lead to ...

Authors: Hang Xiong, Puqing Wang and Georgiy Bobashev

Ambidextrous leadership, ambidextrous employee, and the interaction between ambidextrous leadership and employee innovative performance

Leader opening and closing behaviors are assumed to foster high levels of employee exploration and exploitation behaviors, hence motivating employee innovative performance. Applying the ambidexterity theory of...

Authors: Faris Alghamdi

Uncovering the backings to passion: why do small firm owners/managers engage in entrepreneurship?

This study aimed to uncover the backings to passion that plays a great role on firm’s entrepreneurial engagement. It explores a framework on what other factors determine the individual’s engagement on entrepre...

Authors: Abdella Kosa and Idris Mohammed

Entrepreneurial interest and academic performance in Nigeria: evidence from undergraduate students in the University of Ibadan

Entrepreneurial interest among the youth population is a panacea for unemployment especially due to high turnout of educated individuals in the labour force. This paper provides findings on the factors that de...

Authors: Uche A. Osakede, Akanni O. Lawanson and Deborah A. Sobowale

The successful innovations of the affordable care act of 2010

The purpose of this article is to describe the innovative strategies that were used to develop the first National health insurance program in the United States. The first innovative provisions was the developm...

Authors: Ronald D. Hester

The Vitruvian Man of Leonardo da Vinci as a model of innovative entrepreneurship at the intersection of business, art and technology

The vital role of entrepreneurship for economic growth and its impact for job creation in mature and developing economies is widely recognized and quantified (OECD, Entrepreneurship and Business Statistics, 20...

Authors: Mariella C. Remund, Marta Peris-Ortiz and Hans-Jurgen Gehrke

An application of growth diagnostics on the growth of firms: with evidence from Kosovo firms

This paper provides evidence on the impact of the business environment on the growth of firms in less-developed countries, with evidence from Kosovo firms. The theoretical perspective used is growth diagnostic...

Authors: Fadil Sahiti and Helen Lawton Smith

Challenges and opportunities of innovation and incubators as a tool for knowledge-based economy

The purpose of this research is to analyze and identify the challenges and opportunities of innovation and incubators programs and their potential use worldwide.

Authors: Hanadi Mubarak Al-Mubaraki and Michael Busler

Community-based entrepreneurship: evidences from a retail case study

Community-based entrepreneurship is considered to be an important instrument for the realization of potential among marginal and deprived communities isolated from the mainstream economy and is important in br...

Authors: Sazzad Parwez

Can formal innovation training improve group- and organizational-level innovativeness in a healthcare setting?

Does formalization really destroy creative or innovative thinking? What if formal innovation training actually improved firm-level innovativeness? What if a manager could predict the likelihood of success or...

Authors: Joseph S. Schultz, Endre Sjøvold and Beate André

Generative art for all

Generative art is created by a system that operates autonomously, or semi-autonomously, rather than directly by the artist. The artist creates the system and establishes parameters that affect the outcome, but...

Authors: Michael Tempel

Making and breaking in an art education makerspace

In this article, the author will outline the process of setting up a makerspace in an art education program on a US university campus. The challenges that were encountered will be discussed, as will the succes...

Authors: Robert W. Sweeny

Challenges and prospects of entrepreneurship development and job creation for youth unemployed: evidence from Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa city administrations, Ethiopia

This research paper is on youth employment and entrepreneurship. It has investigated a total of 3591 youths in two different geographical areas of Ethiopia. Entirely, it has taken three specific villages: Melk...

Authors: Abel Tewolde Mehari and Christian Feleke Belay

E-textile tooling: new tools—new culture?

The maker movement in recent years has shed light on the blurring boundaries between crafts, creativity, and technology. Tools are a key part of the creation process, shaping both our process of making and the...

Authors: Irene Posch

Market orientation, innovation, and firm performance—an analysis of Albanian firms

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of market orientation as an outer source of innovation for organizations in the context of Albania. We investigate the market orientation relation with innov...

Authors: Rezart Prifti and Genc Alimehmeti

Entrepreneurial intention of international business students in Viet Nam: a survey of the country joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership

This study aims to investigate entrepreneurial intention among international business students in Viet Nam as it is on the way to approve The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The theory of planned behavior (TP...

Authors: Cuong Nguyen

Do general innovation policy tools fit all? Analysis of the regional impact of the Norwegian Skattefunn scheme

The paper examines the regional effects of a general innovation policy, i.e. a policy tool that does not target specific industries or subnational regions. General policy tools are an important part of the por...

Authors: Arne Isaksen, Roger Henning Normann and Olav R. Spilling

On the origin of innovations—the opportunity vacuum as a conceptual model for the explanation of innovation

The aim of this paper is to transfer the innovation system (IS) approach to the microeconomic level, creating a conceptual framework which helps individual actors to explain, identify, and predict the origin o...

Authors: Patrick Planing

Innovation at country-level: association between economic development and patents

This study analyzes the role of economic indicators in country-level innovation, represented by patents in the technology sector. Innovation indicators include the ratio of patents owned by foreign residents and ...

Authors: Viju Raghupathi and Wullianallur Raghupathi

Regional industrial path development: The role of new entrepreneurial firms

Entrepreneurs play an important role in the evolutionary process of regional industries. As founders of new firms, entrepreneurs increase the supply side of the industrial economy, and by doing so, they challe...

Authors: Jan Ole Rypestøl

Leadership in innovation projects: an illustration of the reflective practitioner and the relation to organizational learning

The purpose of this conceptual article is to demonstrate that Donald Schön’s Reflective Practitioner actually outlines an explicit model of the steps that project leaders in practice apply largely unaware. This r...

Authors: Peter R. A. Oeij, Jeff B. R. Gaspersz, Tinka van Vuuren and Steven Dhondt

Does innovation promote economic growth? Evidence from European countries

The paper examines the long-run relationship between innovation and per capita economic growth in the 19 European countries over the period 1989–2014. This study uses six different indicators of innovation: pa...

Authors: Rana P. Maradana, Rudra P. Pradhan, Saurav Dash, Kunal Gaurav, Manju Jayakumar and Debaleena Chatterjee

Are we ready to adopt mobile money in non-profit sector?

Mobile money has grown rapidly in the past few years. It has contributed to greater financial inclusion for the poor and unbanked, bringing millions of people into a formal financial system. Despite the increa...

Authors: Fakir Md Yunus, Safayet Khan, Tanjilut Tasnuba, Paroma Afsara Husain and Amanda Joy Misiti

Role of foreign direct investment on technology transfer and economic growth in Kenya: a case of the energy sector

Foreign firms in Kenya have played a major role in enhancing economic growth in the agriculture sector, especially in floriculture and horticulture. Over a long period of time, foreign direct investment (FDI) ...

Authors: Hezron M. Osano and Pauline W. Koine

The powerful ideas of making: building beyond the curriculum

In this paper, rather than consider how fabrication technologies and maker activities can be directly matched to existing standards or allow for more efficient content coverage, I position making as a network ...

Authors: Nathan Holbert

Sex differences in entrepreneurs’ business growth intentions: an identity approach

The present empirical study explores the effects of gender role and cultural identity (masculinity and femininity) in mens’ and womens’ business growth intentions in established firms. A questionnaire survey w...

Authors: Leonidas A. Zampetakis, Maria Bakatsaki, Konstantinos Kafetsios and Vassilis S. Moustakis

The influence of social capital on opportunity emergence and exploitation: a comparison of portfolio and serial entrepreneurs

Habitual entrepreneurs are a frequent and important phenomenon in entrepreneurship and for the economy. We lack, however, a systematic understanding of the advantages or disadvantages of multiple business owne...

Authors: Christian Lechner, Florian Kirschenhofer and Michael Dowling

A universal new product development and upgradation framework

When confronted with new product development (NPD), managers generally adopt quick fixes such as benchmarking with competing products and then attempting incremental changes over the competitors’ product featu...

Authors: Kaustubh Dhargalkar, Kasturi Shinde and Yoshita Arora

An entrepreneurial key competencies’ model

The paper has twofold goals. The paper reviews the culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competencies in Palestine. It is characterized by donor-supported and non-governmental-initiated trainings. Th...

Authors: Labib Arafeh

Examining the differences between the motivations of traditional and entrepreneurial scientists

In recent decades, the rise of the entrepreneurial university and the need for commercialization of university knowledge has gained significant attention, thus posing major challenges for higher education inst...

Authors: Sándor Huszár, Szabolcs Prónay and Norbert Buzás

Laboratory experiments in innovation research: a methodological overview and a review of the current literature

Innovation research has developed a broad set of methodological approaches in recent decades. In this paper, we propose laboratory experiments as a fruitful methodological addition to the existing methods in i...

Authors: Julia Brüggemann and Kilian Bizer

Retraction Note: Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process?

Authors: Stefano De Falco

Entrepreneurship in an open national innovation system (ONIS): a proposal for Mexico

In the context of globalization, international processes do affect the national innovation system (NIS), increasing the relationship between its agents and its components within and with external agents.

Authors: Leonel Corona-Treviño

Innovation and service outsourcing: an empirical analysis based on data from Tunisian firms

Recently, outsourcing services has been an important component of the organizational strategy of service firms. However, most research studies mainly focus on analyzing the determining factors of outsourcing a...

Authors: Hanen Sdiri and Mohamed Ayadi

Serial entrepreneurs in the Waterloo ecosystem

The framework for this study is based on the research and literature related to serial entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Our sample is 12 serial entrepreneurs within a single context—the Waterloo R...

Authors: Prescott C. Ensign and Steve Farlow

Students’ entrepreneurial behavior: international and gender differences

Due to a high level of uncertainty, entrepreneurship is generally considered a risky endeavor. This paper explores the factors impacting entrepreneurial behavior in order to identify new educational opportunit...

Authors: Tugrul Daim, Marina Dabic and Elvan Bayraktaroglu

Resources, experience, and perseverance in entrepreneurs’ perceived likelihood of success in an emerging economy

This paper introduces new results obtained from a statistical investigation into a 3071-observation data set collected from a Vietnamese nationwide entrepreneurship survey. From established relationships, such...

Authors: Quan Hoang Vuong, Thu Hang Do and Thu Trang Vuong