The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides … of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of … entrepreneurship education for developing the skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to create jobs, generate economic growth …

Entrepreneurial motivation has been a topic that dominated entrepreneurship research for more than two decades … a single motive that would explain all kinds of entrepreneurship. In this paper we investigate the motives of … entrepreneurs with reference to two commonly identified entrepreneur types, namely, ‘entrepreneurs', and ‘small …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

entrepreneurship from across multiple disciplines. She reports that the legal academy has only minimally engaged in entrepreneurship … scholarship and not at all as to female entrepreneurship. Author reviews the origins of female entrepreneurship literature and the … compilations describing the emergence of female entrepreneurship as a business and social phenomenon, the women who undertook and …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

Part-time entrepreneurship is often a first step toward full-time entrepreneurship. This study investigates the … transition from part- to full-time entrepreneurship. We analyze how financial and non-financial motives of part …-time entrepreneurs influence the intention to become full-time entrepreneurs. Our results show that part-time entrepreneurs starting …

We study how entrepreneurs evaluate the ability of different U.S. venture capitalists (VCs) to add value to start …-up companies. Analyzing a large dataset on entrepreneurs' stated preferences on VCs, we show that entrepreneurs view independent … entrepreneurs are able to correctly identify the VCs with better track record, they do not believe that such VCs have a higher …

Most extant research shows that female entrepreneurs are less likely to grow large firms and, in fact, don't want to … grow their firms as large as male entrepreneurs do. This study of 191 nascent entrepreneurs finds that neither men nor … women entrepreneurs consider firm growth a top priority for their emerging firms. These a priori ideas about growth and firm …

contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model …