Origin and Emergence of Entrepreneurship as a Research Field

Meyer, Martin; Libaers, Dirk; Thijs, Bart; Grant, Kevin; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Debackere, Koenraad

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“…In the case of EU, there is a major influence of the UK affiliated researchers and the contributions of Netherlands and Sweden are also significant in relative terms. This is coherent with previous studies about entrepreneurship as an independent field in social sciences, clearly dominated by Anglo-Saxon countries, particularly by those from North America and the UK, with the relative solid position of Nordic countries and Netherlands (Meyer et al 2014).These results would also go along with what was mentioned specifically by Welter and Lasch in relation to the national or international orientation of the European research communities in the entrepreneurship field and how aspects as language and the size of national scenes might be playing a role in the case of Germany or France (Welter and Lasch 2008). Despite the advances, the internationalizacion of the research community in the field is still limited.…”

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An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

Arenal

Feijóo

Moreno

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JEPP

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Purpose Academic research into entrepreneurship policy is particularly interesting due to the increasing relevance of the topic and since knowledge about the evolution of themes in this field is still rather limited. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key concepts, topics, trends and shifts that have shaped the entrepreneurship policy research agenda during the period 1990–2016. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses text mining techniques, cluster analysis and complementary bibliographic data to examine the evolution of a corpus of 1,048 academic papers focused on entrepreneurship-related policies and published during the period 1990–2016 in ten relevant journals. In particular, the paper follows a standard text mining workflow: first, as text is unstructured, content requires a set of pre-processing tasks and then a stemming process. Then, the paper examines the most repeated concepts within the corpus, considering the whole period 1990–2016 and also in five-year terms. Finally, the paper conducts a k-means clustering to divide the collection of documents into coherent groups with similar content. The analyses in the paper also include geographical particularities considering three regional sub-corpora, distinguishing those articles authored in the European Union (EU), the USA and South and Eastern Asia, respectively. Findings Results of the analysis show that inclusion, employment and regulation-related papers have largely dominated the research in the field, evolving from an initial classical approach to the relationship between entrepreneurship and employment to a wider, multidisciplinary perspective, including the relevance of management, geographies and narrower topics such as agglomeration economics or internationalisation instead of the previous generic sectorial approaches. The text mining analysis also reveals how entrepreneurship policy research has gained increasing attention and has become both more open, with a growing cooperation among researchers from different affiliations, and more sophisticated, with concepts and themes that moved the research agenda forward, closer to the priorities of policy implementation. Research limitations/implications The paper identifies main trends and research gaps in the field of entrepreneurship policy providing actionable knowledge by presenting the spectrum of both over-explored and understudied research themes in the field. In practical terms the results of the text mining analysis can be interpreted as a compass to navigate the entrepreneurship policy research agenda. Practical implications The paper presents the heterogeneity of topics under research in the field, reinforcing the concept of entrepreneurship as a multidisciplinary and dynamic domain. Therefore, the definition and adoption of a certain policy agenda in entrepreneurship should consider multiple aspects (needs, objectives, stakeholders, expected outputs, etc.) to be comprehensive and aligned with its complexity. In addition, the paper shows how text mining techniques could be used to map the research activity in a particular field, contributing to the challenge of linking research and policy. Originality/value The exploratory nature of text mining allows us to obtain new knowledge and reveals hidden patterns from large quantities of documents/text data, representing an opportunity to complement other qualitative reviews. In this sense, the main value of this paper is not to advise on the future configuration of entrepreneurship policy as a research topic, but to unwrap the past by unveiling how key themes of the entrepreneurship policy research agenda have emerged, evolved and/or declined over time as a foundation on which to build further developments.

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An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

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“…Given their dominant role in the co-citation network, these clusters are used to provide insight into the intellectual structure of the smart-city research field. To achieve this aim, their content is analyzed by combining the use of core documents (Glanzel and Czerwon 1996;Glanzel and Thijs 2011;Meyer et al 2013) and word profiles (Braam et al 1991a;1991b). Five core documents for each cluster are selected by considering the in-degree measurement of the publications falling into them.…”

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Smart-City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research

Mora

Deakin

Reid

2018

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

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More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publication, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since then, the literature discussing this new concept and the ICT-oriented urban-innovation approach it stands for has been growing steadily, along with the number of initiatives that cities all over the world have launched to pursue their ambition of becoming smart. However, current research still falls short of providing a clear understanding of smart cities and the scientific knowledge policy makers and practitioners both need to deal with their progressive development. In response to this shortfall, this paper offers a bibliometric study of the first two decades of smart-city research, whereby citation link-based clustering and text-based analysis are combined to: (1) build and visualize the network of scholarly publications shaping the intellectual structure of the smart city research field; (2) identify the clusters of thematically related publications; and (3) reveal the emerging development paths of smart cities that these clusters support and the strategic principles they embody. This study uncovers five main development paths: the Experimental Path; the Ubiquitous Path; the Corporate Path; the European Path; and the Holistic Path. Overall, this analysis offers a comprehensive and systematic view of how a smart city can be understood theoretically and as a scientific object of knowledge able to inform policy-making processes.

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“…Entrepreneurship has consolidated itself as a distinct discipline in social sciences in the 80s and 90s, but it gained legitimacy in the latest 2000s (Meyer, 2014). Still, its intellectual roots are older and they can be traced back to Richard Cantillon's work Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (1755).…”

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Regional differences in entrepreneurial perceptions and implications for the Romanian competitiveness policy

Nicolae

Ion

Nicolae

2016

Management &Amp; Marketing

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Understanding entrepreneurship as being spatially rooted transforms it in a regional and national competitiveness factor. Despite the increasing importance of the territorial dimension in supporting economic growth at policy and declarative levels, in practice, in Romania, the territorial structure and spatial organization of the economy contributes little to the national value added. In this context, we study regional differences in entrepreneurial initiative and perception and their possible impact on the national competitiveness strategy. We use primary data collected in three Romanian regions (Centre, North-East, Bucureşti-Ilfov) and conduct a statistical analysis of the data. The results indicate different comparative regional profiles. The regional differences in the intentions, motivations, barriers and limitation for entrepreneurship confirm the theoretical view that personal motivations of becoming an entrepreneur are determined by environmental conditions. We conclude that the regional differences should be taken into account in the elaboration of the competitiveness policy, corroborated with the results of other similar studies.

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Origin and Emergence of Entrepreneurship as a Research Field

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

An academic perspective on the entrepreneurship policy agenda: themes, geographies and evolution

Smart-City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research

Regional differences in entrepreneurial perceptions and implications for the Romanian competitiveness policy

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