This paper analyzes major patterns and trends in entrepreneurship among technology-based university alumni since the 1930s by asking two related research questions: (1) Who enters entrepreneurship, and has this changed over time?; and (2) How does the rate of entrepreneurship vary with changes...

How does the relationship between the organizational context for venture idea formation and venture performance depend on the venture’s founding team and business environment? Using data from a survey of 2,067 firms, we show that venture ideas emerging from research lab contexts are imprinted...

This paper contributes to institutional theory on cognitive and normative institutional change targeted at altering beliefs, behaviors, and ultimately firm performance. Prior work emphasizes institutional changes where the ideas and beliefs originate from those within the institutional context....

The use of alumni surveys as a data collection methodology for empirical studies of innovation and entrepreneurship is a relatively recent phenomenon. Since limitations of data access have traditionally been a key bottleneck in the progress of systematically understanding the process of the...

This review paper summarizes some current literature regarding entrepreneurship in dynamic environments, with a specific focus on the Chinese and U.S. contexts. In the first section, we review research on how entrepreneurs manage the environmental dynamism that technology changes often trigger...

The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be among the main reasons misinformation continues to be prevalent online. Research aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation has so far focused on user-level interventions with...

The ultimate value of this study is to help us understand the economic impact of the entrepreneurial ventures of university graduates. We know that some universities play an important role in many economies through their core education, research and development, and other spillovers. However, in...