This study explores the linkage between entrepreneurship-specific education participation, alertness and risk-taking general human capital skills, and the intensity of entrepreneurial intention. We integrate insights from human capital theory with views from social feminist theory and socially...

Irrespective of the chosen measure of technological sophistication for a sample of independent high technology firms, the most technologically sophisticated appeared much more likely to report that a continual financial constraint had impeded firm growth, compared with the less technologically...

This study explores the benefits of a managed science park location in the UK for independent technology-based firms. Property needs of independent technology-based firms located on managed science parks are compared with the property needs of technologybased firms located on non-managed parks....

A matched sample methodology was utilized to detect ownership and management differences between first generation and multi-generation independent unquoted family companies in the UK. Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in first generation and multi-generation companies were generally drawn from the...

Policy-makers have supported initiatives that enhance the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). They have also encouraged more students to seek jobs in SMEs. This study assessed the contribution of the 1994 Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP), which subsidized...

Family firms that can leverage entrepreneurial experience and knowledge can shape local economic development. Practitioners concerned with fostering enterprise sustainability need to be aware that family firms cite contrasting goals, resource profiles and requirements. Family firms are not a...