A national innovation system is concerned with the full process of converting new knowledge into commercially viable results. Governments are policy-active in trying to create productive national innovation systems. This paper reviews ways of thinking about entrepreneurship as the...

As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor project, we asked 2,000 adult New Zealanders if they have made a personal investment in a new firm in the past three years as well as the magnitude of their supPort, the nature of the businesses they sponsored, and their relationship with the...

Research on entrepreneurship generally answers the following questions: how entrepreneurs act, what happens when entrepreneurs act, and why people choose to become entrepreneurs. Douglas and Shepherd examine the reasons that motivate some people to become entrepreneurs, why others choose to be...