Pathways to academic entrepreneurship: the determinants of female scholars’ entrepreneurial intentions

Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs

“…This contributes to shedding light on the importance of university support in academic entrepreneurship, especially under the gender lens. This may have important implications, both theoretical and practical, to address the disadvantaged situation of female entrepreneurs within the academic context (Di Paola, 2020) and in the entrepreneurship field in general (Acs et al, 2011;Jennings & Brush, 2013). It will contribute also to the entrepreneurial ecosystem literature by providing evidence of the empowering role of university support and the increasingly central role played by universities as entrepreneurship enablers and discrimination inhibitors (Foss et al, 2019).…”

“…Feminist theories have suggested as an explanation that women are characterized by either lower resource endowment and discrimination (liberal feminist theory) that prevent their business to grow or different attributes and aspirations (social feminist theory), which lead them to consider an alternative measure of business success (Fischer et al, 1993). Entrepreneurship literature, instead, in explaining the causes of the different rates and success of women entrepreneurship has focused on multiple archetypes of entrepreneurial ecosystems, such as policies (Foss et al, 2019;Terjesen et al, 2016), culture (Bardasi et al, 2011;Hechavarría & Brieger, 2022;Hechavarría et al, 2017), financial resources (Lauto et al, 2022) social capital and networks (Neumeyer et al, 2019), and universities (Di Paola, 2020;Rodríguez-Gulías et al, 2018;Shane et al, 2015).…”

“…By incentivizing academic staff, including female academics, to disseminate the results of their research, they can generate knowledge spillover, high-quality employment, and innovativeness (Acs et al, 2009;Hayter, 2013). The university, however, is one of the contexts where women are most underrepresented, and the reasons behind it are far from being fully investigated (Di Paola, 2020;Micozzi et al, 2016;Rosa & Dawson, 2006;Shane et al, 2015). The role of the university context within the flourishing literature on gender in entrepreneurship thus has long been overlooked (Jennings & Brush, 2013;Perkmann et al, 2021).…”

Gendered motives towards hybrid entrepreneurial intentions: Empirical evidence from China

“…We cannot presume that there are no variations among groups of women and a more in‐depth analysis of a subgroup of women can be conducted to gain further insights into this topic. For example, Di Paola (2020) examines the determinants of female scholars’ entrepreneurial intentions. Meanwhile, hybrid entrepreneurship in this study is also explored without taking into account its heterogeneity such as solo entrepreneurship and team startup.…”

Gender, STEM women and entrepreneurship: a review and future research directions

“…Quantitative papers within this sample explored women's different pathways into AE (Di Paola, 2021) and the direct and indirect multilevel (individual, institutional and national levels) influences upon AE engagement (Dohse et al. , 2021).…”