Purpose - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microfoundations of student entrepreneurship, a cornerstone of … innovation ecosystems. To this end, this paper assesses how perceived university support for entrepreneurship influences …/value - This research presents a novel analysis of the microfoundations driving student entrepreneurship within different …

entrepreneurs, high-impact entrepreneurship, serial entrepreneurship and innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Findings - The lack of … signi fi cance in many of the variables included in estimations suggests that student entrepreneurship seems to be a rather … random phenomenon in Brazil. Research limitations/implications - Findings pose challenges for student entrepreneurship, as …

entrepreneurship rates decrease with the higher academic level of the researcher; in general, academic entrepreneurs come from families …/value: Despite the great number of theoretical and empirical studies found in the literature on entrepreneurship and academic … entrepreneurship, there is still a shortage of practical studies on this latter topic in Brazil. This gap is even more evident when the …