Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue “The Entrepreneurship Challenges in Latin America”. Design/methodology/approach: Latin America and the Caribbean is a region with many potentialities. Like one of the largest markets in the world, entrepreneurship...

The objective of this study is to determine whether human and social capital are drivers of entrepreneurship. The methodology involves the estimation of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as logistic regressions and correlations of variables. It is focused on information...

This paper aims to assess knowledge relatedness as a possible determinant of business innovation performance. Knowledge relatedness is understood as the degree of similarity between a firm's knowledge and that of its parent, i.e. the company that the entrepreneur leaves to establish his or her...