Student entrepreneurship and the university ecosystem: a multi-country empirical exploration

The Moderating Role of National Culture in the Relationship Between University Entrepreneurship Offerings and Student Start-Up Activity: An Embeddedness Perspective

“…Three categories of resources related to start‐up activities are provided by universities: lectures and seminars on entrepreneurship‐related topics (curricular programing); networking and coaching opportunities, competitions, entrepreneurship dormitories, student incubators (co‐curricular programing); and financial resources for founding a business (Kuttim et al ; Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova ). From an embeddedness perspective, students who engage with these resources are exposed to shared entrepreneurial values, an environment where they feel some security in experimenting and failing, and a context where they interact with fellow students having similar experiences, all elements which give rise to a sense of belonging (Anderson, Drakopoulou‐Dodd, and Jack ; McKeever, Jack, and Anderson ).…”

“…The environment within a university can become a type of entrepreneurial ecosystem (Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova 2017). An entrepreneurial ecosystem includes a set of six key domains: conductive culture, enabling policies and leadership, availability of appropriate finance, quality human capital, venture-friendly markets for products, and institutional and infrastructural supports (Isenberg 2011(Isenberg , 2014.…”

“…An emerging stream of literature suggests a relationship between the university context and entrepreneurial intentions of students (Bae et al 2014;Beliaeva, Laskovaia, and Shirokova 2017;Liñ an, Rodrigues-Cohard, and Rueda-Cantuche 2011;Sesen 2013;Turker and Selcuk 2009;Zhang, Duysters, and Cloodt 2014). The university environment includes a number of interrelated parts that can impact student entrepreneurship (Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova 2017;Shirokova et al 2017). The spirit of the educational environment, its shared values and norms, leadership and governance, infrastructure, and its particular entrepreneurship-related offerings can affect entrepreneurial intentions and actions (Morris, Kuratko, and Cornwall 2013;Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova 2017;Sotirakou 2004).…”

“…The university environment includes a number of interrelated parts that can impact student entrepreneurship (Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova 2017;Shirokova et al 2017). The spirit of the educational environment, its shared values and norms, leadership and governance, infrastructure, and its particular entrepreneurship-related offerings can affect entrepreneurial intentions and actions (Morris, Kuratko, and Cornwall 2013;Morris, Shirokova, and Tsukanova 2017;Sotirakou 2004). Also important is the commercialization of university research, including patenting, licensing, and creation of university spin-offs (Etzkowitz 2003;Shane and Stuart 2002).…”

An Overview of Ecopreneurship, Eco-Innovation, and the Ecological Sector

“…Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is generally defined as the discovery of gaps in the market in which entrepreneurs are capable of spotting and exploring new business opportunities [10][11][12]. Thus, ecopreneurship is the search for new opportunities that help protect the environment in pursuit of environmental sustainability [13].…”