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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,684 Views
19 Pages

13 June 2023

With the development of the country’s social and economic transformation, the topic of innovation and entrepreneurship has received widespread attention from society. However, from the current situation, due to the high uncertainty and challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,625 Views
23 Pages

26 October 2022

With the advent of the “Industry 4.0” era, the outbreak of the new epidemic, and the frequent occurrence of economic crises, sustainable entrepreneurship has led to the entrepreneurial ambition of serial entrepreneurs. Although a large nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,356 Views
18 Pages

Based on the data of 22 different countries from 2005 to 2018, this paper mainly studies the influence of entrepreneurship on sustainability, and further explores the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and the interaction effect between E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
17 Pages

Digital Skills and Entrepreneurship in Mexico: Evidence from Probit Models and Implications for Digital Inclusion Policy

  • Ana Barbara Mungaray-Moctezuma,
  • José G. Aguilar-Barceló and
  • Angélica G. González-López

2 December 2025

This study examines the relationship between digital skills and entrepreneurial intention in Mexico, emphasizing demographic, educational, and technological determinants. Despite the recognized importance of digitalization, most Mexican entrepreneurs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,368 Views
19 Pages

24 July 2025

This study investigates how new R&D institutions mediate policy–market disjunctures to foster integrated innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Employing a longitudinal case analysis (2013–2023) of the Jiangsu Industrial Technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,018 Views
25 Pages

15 October 2022

As an important livelihood strategy choice to promote the sustainable development of themselves and regions, returnees’ entrepreneurship has played a vital role in the governance of all-level Chinese local governments since the 21st century. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,073 Views
28 Pages

Empowering Innovation: Advancing Social Entrepreneurship Policies in Croatia

  • Sanja Tišma,
  • Mira Mileusnić Škrtić,
  • Sanja Maleković,
  • Daniela Angelina Jelinčić and
  • Ivana Keser

3 August 2024

This paper examines the impact of public policy guidelines on social entrepreneurship in Croatia, focusing on regional disparities and the effectiveness of various policy areas. Using a mixed-method approach, this research highlights how these variat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,346 Views
24 Pages

22 March 2024

This article takes the establishment of two batches of mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases in 2016 and 2017 as a quasi-natural experiment. It utilizes panel data from 284 cities in China from 2010 to 2021 to construct a multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,053 Views
20 Pages

Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vitality of start-ups has been continuously suppressed, their income has been decreasing, and overall economic development has gradually declined. At this time, the government, as an effective subject...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,621 Views
19 Pages

From Science to Policy: How to Support Social Entrepreneurship in Croatia

  • Sanja Tišma,
  • Sanja Maleković,
  • Daniela Angelina Jelinčić,
  • Mira Mileusnić Škrtić and
  • Ivana Keser

Entrepreneurs are constantly looking for new models to address growing global challenges in a sustainable manner. Over the past several decades, those challenges have been identified and responded to through the development of social entrepreneurship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,076 Views
29 Pages

24 November 2024

The Rural Revitalization Strategy is an important policy enacted by the Chinese government, aimed at bridging the disparity between urban and rural areas while enhancing economic, cultural, and social development levels in rural areas. Research evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,255 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2024

The Integration of Professional Education and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education (IPEIEE) has been recognized as an important direction for the development of higher education in enhancing the innovation and entrepreneurship awareness and abil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
29 Pages

16 October 2025

This study examines how policy incentives enhance students’ entrepreneurial mindset and agility through industry–academia collaboration. Unlike prior research that often adopts institutional or industry perspectives, this paper foreground...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,947 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2022

The ecological devastation observed in the 21st century requires everyone’s participation, including corporates. Many companies have, therefore, incorporated these ecological concerns into their sustainability decisions. We reviewed studies on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,118 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2025

This study examines the effect of China’s Pilot Policy for Migrant Workers Returning Home for Entrepreneurship on High-Quality Agricultural Development (HQAD) at the county level. Despite extensive research on return migration and rural develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,460 Views
30 Pages

Youth entrepreneurship is an increasingly prominent aspect of entrepreneurship support policies, but there is surprisingly little relevant research-based empirical evidence. This research gap is particularly noticeable when it comes to the personal a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,944 Views
29 Pages

3 January 2025

Entrepreneurship support is undoubtedly necessary but often fails to meet expectations. To investigate the reasons behind this, a sequential exploratory methodology, with both qualitative and quantitative data, was used in this research. Within the E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,285 Views
20 Pages

9 May 2024

Rural entrepreneurship has injected new vitality into the comprehensive realization of rural revitalization, and exploring the impact of urban innovation and development on rural entrepreneurship is of great significance in promoting the comprehensiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
8,616 Views
23 Pages

This study explores the influence of green entrepreneurial activity on sustainable development, using institutional economics as a theoretical framework. Also, the role of entrepreneurship policy is analysed in the context of Saudi Arabia. Using info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,396 Views
20 Pages

28 May 2019

Today, along with national economic growth and job creation, the need for entrepreneurship is increasing throughout all societies. In particular, entrepreneurship has important influences on national economies including reviving company economies, cr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
23,754 Views
21 Pages

Having identified the need to conduct research on the intersection between entrepreneurship education (EE) and public policies, we carried out a systematic literature review on decision-making processes regarding the implementation of education for e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,515 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2024

This study aims to explore how a region’s degree of vulnerability influences the perceived level of support toward social entrepreneurship from a social entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective. The study of social entrepreneurial ecosystems (SEEs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,469 Views
19 Pages

1 July 2019

Currently in the European Union, regional policies and their related programs are aware of the importance of fostering social responsibility, whilst, at same time, they have to promote entrepreneurship. Promoting the culture of sustainable entreprene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
29 Pages

1 December 2025

This study aims to assess whether country-level conditions traditionally associated with fostering entrepreneurship (such as digitization, economic climate, and government policies) explain the extent to which R&D leads to new commercial opportun...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,553 Views
51 Pages

20 June 2024

The concept of policy entrepreneurs has gained increasing attention in studies of policy change, including climate policy and governance. It foregrounds the role of agency in understanding policy change. However, agency of policy entrepreneurs in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,076 Views
15 Pages

1 January 2023

Although there have been many studies on the factors influencing university innovation, few studies have focused on the causal relationship between government innovative support and the innovation ability of universities (IAU). To fill this research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,765 Views
15 Pages

The Spin-Off as an Instrument of Sustainable Development: Incentives for Creating an Academic USO

  • Francisco-Isidoro Vega-Gomez,
  • F. Javier Miranda,
  • Antonio Chamorro Mera and
  • Jesús Pérez Mayo

19 November 2018

In recent years, universities and public authorities have increasingly focused on creating USOs (university spin-offs) as a method of transferring research results to society and of achieving the sustainable development sought by European institution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,712 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2025

The question of what motivates entrepreneurs to maintain and grow their ventures beyond the startup phase remains an underexplored aspect of entrepreneurship research. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM (2023), this study examin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,139 Views
37 Pages

12 August 2025

In the preceding two decades, blue entrepreneurship has emerged as a pivotal proposition for Europe’s coastal fishing communities, as these communities have sought to diversify and reinvigorate their local economies. The present paper seeks to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,048 Views
17 Pages

“Green Ocean Treasure Hunting” Guided by Policy Support in a Transitional Economy

  • Baoshan Ge,
  • Fan Sheng,
  • Yang Gao,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Xiaomin Du

8 February 2018

For countries in the process of economic transition, improvement of industrialization is no longer the sole goal of their economic development. While upgrading the level of industrial development, these countries also gradually attach importance to r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,161 Views
27 Pages

Social media-based content entrepreneurship is evolving rapidly and emerging as a significant and growing form of employment. Generative AI (GenAI) offers content entrepreneurs a powerful tool for content creation; however, the technology can be abus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,885 Views
21 Pages

EU Policies Driving Entrepreneurial Competences—Reflections from the Case of EntreComp

  • Jaana Seikkula-Leino,
  • Maria Salomaa,
  • Svanborg Rannveig Jónsdóttir,
  • Elin McCallum and
  • Hazel Israel

22 July 2021

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals promote entrepreneurial competences as a means of supporting young people to innovate, start businesses, and create jobs. Furthermore, the European Union considers entrepreneurial skills to be essenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,013 Views
18 Pages

Social Entrepreneurship: Dissection of a Phenomenon through a German Lens

  • Karina Cagarman,
  • Jan Kratzer and
  • Katharina Osbelt

20 September 2020

The occurrence and scientific investigation of the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship are rather new. The term is very popular among politicians and is reflected in a lot of the political demands and willingness that they express. However, a revie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,566 Views
25 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether public health entrepreneurship principles implementation in the public health sector are alternative ways of promoting an immediate improvement of healthcare infrastructure. To contribute to the lit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,610 Views
25 Pages

Institutional Barriers and Facilitators of Sustainability for Indonesian Batik SMEs: A Policy Agenda

  • Arien Arianti Gunawan,
  • Jose Bloemer,
  • Allard C. R. van Riel and
  • Caroline Essers

18 July 2022

The implementation of sustainability-oriented practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been discussed frequently over the years. Recent studies on sustainability have focused mainly on links between ecological and economic sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,837 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2024

This paper explores the intricate relationships among the evolution of the international political economy, the dynamics of business ecosystems, and the transformations in entrepreneurship within the European energy sector, with a specific emphasis o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,081 Views
24 Pages

Determinants of Entrepreneurship in Ambato, Ecuador: Statistical Predictive and Component Modeling

  • Oscar López-Solís,
  • Alberto Luzuriaga-Jaramillo,
  • Mayra Bedoya-Jara,
  • Joselito Naranjo-Santamaría,
  • Omar Negrete-Costales,
  • Lorena López-Naranjo,
  • Ernesto Jara-Vásquez and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas

21 June 2025

This study investigated the key determinants of entrepreneurship in Ambato, Ecuador, through the application of predictive statistical models. The primary objective was to identify critical variables that influence the success and sustainability of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,172 Views
14 Pages

1 June 2022

The investment in Major Construction Projects (MCPs) has a counter-cyclical impact on quantitative GDP increases during the recession period. However, its impact on the quality of economic growth is still unknown. Based on the data of prefecture-leve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,432 Views
24 Pages

9 January 2025

This study examines the differences between the emerging new energy policy and its predecessor, offering guidelines for an integrated approach to support a rapid and sustainable energy transition. Using a bibliometric and qualitative integrative anal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,027 Views
23 Pages

6 December 2025

This study investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities shape sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies. Focusing on knowledge management (KM) as a mediator, entrepreneurial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,576 Views
24 Pages

21 January 2019

Studying the effects of public entrepreneurship and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policies on productivity (i.e., technological efficiency) is important, because the investment policies primarily aim to reduce allocation inefficiencies, en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,978 Views
18 Pages

Business Dynamism and Innovation Capacity, an Entrepreneurship Worldwide Perspective

  • João Lopes,
  • Márcio Oliveira,
  • Paulo Silveira,
  • Luís Farinha and
  • José Oliveira

This research aims to identify which factors best explain business dynamics and innovation capacity in the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. To achieve this, data from the Global Entrepreneurship...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,834 Views
27 Pages

11 July 2022

Researchers in the fields of psychology and sociology have demonstrated the profound influence of social status on people’s behavior. Although existing studies show that social status matters, scholars have devoted little attention to how famil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,593 Views
14 Pages

Conducive Environments and Entrepreneurial Access to Rural Policies

  • Marcello De Rosa,
  • Luca Bartoli,
  • Teresa Del Giudice and
  • Yari Vecchio

20 April 2022

The objective of the paper is to provide an analysis of the role of supportive institutions in fostering entrepreneurial access to rural development policies (RDP) in Italy, namely dedicated measures for boosting farm investments. Access to RDP is co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,156 Views
18 Pages

Entrepreneurial risk is an important factor that individuals must consider when starting their own business. The COVID-19 continues to rage, bringing great challenges to China’s economy and entrepreneurial activities. In this study, college stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,117 Views
39 Pages

18 October 2022

Female entrepreneurship plays a critical role in achieving economic diversification, sustainable economy, and sustainable development, not only in economic terms but also in social and environmental dimensions. Women are considered excellent and rele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
500 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2025

Data-driven text classification technology is crucial for understanding and managing a large number of entrepreneurial policy-related texts, yet it is hindered by two primary challenges. First, the intricate, multi-faceted nature of policy documents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
9,341 Views
27 Pages

30 March 2022

Economic diversification is vital in achieving sustainable economic development. This diversification is chiefly important for countries relying on natural resources for their economy, such as Qatar. Private enterprises, mainly through small-to-mediu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,251 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2022

In this paper, I evaluate the impact of a multidimensional national program implemented in Chile during the second term of President Bachelet to facilitate female entrepreneurs’ access to credit, reduce gender gaps in financial inclusion, and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,887 Views
24 Pages

11 October 2025

Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in the economic development of emerging economies, particularly by addressing persistent issues such as youth unemployment and growth challenges. Developing nations perceive their startup ecosystems as critic...

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