Entrepreneurial Teams and New Business Creation

This research presents an integrative model about the use of those services that have been specifically designed to support entrepreneurial initiative. By contrast with conventional perspectives from the entrepreneurship field, mainly drawn from a resource-based view, we propose a two-fold approach to explain the utilization of services that are oriented to new business creation: by considering the role of resources within the start-up's reach (internal and external); by incorporating a behavioral and decision-making approach. On the basis of the suggested decision-making framework, a multi-stage decision model is developed and tested by means of a representative sample of entrepreneurs linked to a local development agency. The results show that the adoption and use of support services for new business creation is a complex and reflexive process, triggered by the entrepreneur's internal forces.The entrepreneur searches for information throughout the process and, with assistance from internal teams and external networks, evaluates the choices of businesssupport services. Our findings offer relevant implications and recommendations for business incubators and institutions.

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Holistic experimentation for emergence

Industry and Higher Education ◽

10.1177/0950422216684072 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 34-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jay Mitra

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Entrepreneurship Education ◽

Individual Development ◽

Entrepreneurship Training ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Business Creation ◽

New Business ◽

Competency Based ◽

Education Platform ◽

And Training

This article explores the development of a comprehensive and systemic approach to entrepreneurship education at a research-intensive university in the United Kingdom. The exploration is based on two key conceptual challenges: (a) taking entrepreneurship to mean something more than new business creation and (b) differentiating between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training. The author draws on human capital, capabilities and planned behaviour theories together with those of competency-based and experiential learning to make six propositions. The idea is to develop a replicative framework for obtaining insights into the setting of multiple objectives, varied content and a range of pedagogies with which to achieve critical learning outcomes for a set of postgraduate programmes on entrepreneurship in a university context. We distinguish between entrepreneurship education and training but recognize the importance of incorporating both in a curriculum designed to offer a higher education platform for mindset change, critical thinking, problem-solving and individual development capabilities and entrepreneurial value creation in different environments.

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At the intersection of materials, engineering, and new business creation

MRS Bulletin ◽

10.1557/mrs.2015.232 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 40 (12) ◽

pp. 1170-1176

Author(s):

Gregory J. Galvin ◽

Peng Zhou ◽

Timothy J. Davis ◽

Shahyaan Desai ◽

Shane Collins

Keyword(s):

Materials Engineering ◽

Business Creation ◽

New Business ◽

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