1. Introduction -- 2. Entrepreneur resources : theoretical insights -- 3. Entrepreneur resource profiles -- 4. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : finance -- 5. Entrepreneur resource accumulation : networking and resource orchestration -- 6. Opportunity discovery and creation -- 7. Learning --...

This study utilizes a human capital framework to explore whether business ownership experience is associated with the number of business opportunities identified, the number of identified opportunities that are pursued, and the nature of those opportunities. Information from a large...

Support is being provided to increase the pool of novice entrepreneurs who have no prior business ownership experience. Policymakers and practitioners are, however, considering whether to allocate resources towards portfolio and serial entrepreneurs who have prior business ownership experience....

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...

W ESTHEAD P., U CBASARAN D. and W RIGHT M. (2003) Differences between private firms owned by novice, serial and portfolio entrepreneurs: implications for policy makers and practitioners, Reg. Studies 37 , 187-200. Policy makers can target "hard' (i.e. financial) and "soft' (i.e. technical)...