Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze this phenomenon and identify its determinants using data from Brazilian higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a data set comprehending 2,230 university students from 70 different institutions across the country, the au...
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| author | Cherubini Alves Bruno Fischer Paola Rücker Schaeffer Sérgio Queiroz |
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| description | Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze this phenomenon and identify its determinants using data from Brazilian higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a data set comprehending 2,230 university students from 70 different institutions across the country, the authors develop five Probit models to assess impacts related to individual traits and systemic conditions on five dependent dimensions: entrepreneurial activity, potential entrepreneurs, high-impact entrepreneurship, serial entrepreneurship and innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Findings - The lack of significance in many of the variables included in estimations suggests that student entrepreneurship seems to be a rather random phenomenon in Brazil. Research limitations/implications - Findings pose challenges for student entrepreneurship, as targets for intervention are not clear. Originality/value - Over the past decades, universities have been receiving an increasing demand to go beyond their role of producing science and technology to explore its knowledge potential to produce novel commercial applications. However, while there is a growing interest in ways to foster scientific academic entrepreneurship, universities also serve as a positive environment for student entrepreneurship training, knowledge sharing, testing ideas and learning. So far, the importance of student entrepreneurship has received far less attention than it likely deserves. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3c1966bddab344188bd6d721a4733eed2022-12-22T01:43:41ZengEmerald PublishingInnovation & Management Review2515-89612019-06-011629611710.1108/INMR-02-2018-0002621656Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in BrazilCherubini Alves0Bruno Fischer1Paola Rücker Schaeffer2Sérgio Queiroz3Department of Science and Technology Policy, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, BrazilSchool of Applied Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, BrazilDepartment of Science and Technology Policy, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, BrazilDepartment of Science and Technology Policy, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, BrazilPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze this phenomenon and identify its determinants using data from Brazilian higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a data set comprehending 2,230 university students from 70 different institutions across the country, the authors develop five Probit models to assess impacts related to individual traits and systemic conditions on five dependent dimensions: entrepreneurial activity, potential entrepreneurs, high-impact entrepreneurship, serial entrepreneurship and innovation-driven entrepreneurship. Findings - The lack of significance in many of the variables included in estimations suggests that student entrepreneurship seems to be a rather random phenomenon in Brazil. Research limitations/implications - Findings pose challenges for student entrepreneurship, as targets for intervention are not clear. Originality/value - Over the past decades, universities have been receiving an increasing demand to go beyond their role of producing science and technology to explore its knowledge potential to produce novel commercial applications. However, while there is a growing interest in ways to foster scientific academic entrepreneurship, universities also serve as a positive environment for student entrepreneurship training, knowledge sharing, testing ideas and learning. So far, the importance of student entrepreneurship has received far less attention than it likely deserves.https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/INMR-02-2018-0002BrazilEntrepreneurial universityEcosystems of entrepreneurship |
| spellingShingle | Cherubini Alves Bruno Fischer Paola Rücker Schaeffer Sérgio Queiroz Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil Innovation & Management Review Brazil Entrepreneurial university Ecosystems of entrepreneurship |
| title | Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil |
| title_full | Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil |
| title_short | Determinants of student entrepreneurship: An assessment on higher education institutions in Brazil |
| title_sort | determinants of student entrepreneurship an assessment on higher education institutions in brazil |
| topic | Brazil Entrepreneurial university Ecosystems of entrepreneurship |
| url | https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/INMR-02-2018-0002 |
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