This study set out to understand some of the key issues involved in a successful crowdfunding campaign based on interviews with founders of several UK-based businesses that had been successful at obtaining funds via different crowdfunding models. The results show that contrary to previous...

This research provides a qualitative analysis of the efficacy of networks for entrepreneurs raising finance in the UK. The authors conducted interviews with eight entrepreneurs in North West England based on the three core components of entrepreneurial networks suggested by Hoang and Antoncic...

It is accepted by most agencies that enterprise education is important for students and for the economy, however it is often difficult to measure the effectiveness of this education as effects can take many years to be shown. We have collected qualitative data from over 300 alumni entrepreneurs,...

Women’s entrepreneurship, whilst increasing in size and quality across the world, still lags behind in India where many of those enterprises created are low tech micro enterprises which often employ only the entrepreneur themselves. This it has been suggested is due to a variety of factors,...

Fear of failure is a key barrier in starting a business in many countries throughout the world due to the high risks involved to the founders’ finances, relationships, status and self-esteem. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s data from a range of nations, it was observed that...

Measuring the success of entrepreneurship education is complex with several issues. Firstly, metrics used are varied, for example using self-efficacy and business creation. In addition, students may be from any school of the university and had varying interaction with entrepreneurship education...

Fear of failure is a key barrier in starting a business throughout the world due to the high risks involved to the founders’ finances, relationships, status and self-esteem. Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data, it was observed that countries with high fear of failure have low Total...