The Appeal of Social Accelerators: What do Social Entrepreneurs Value?

Pandey, Sheela; Lall, Saurabh; Pandey, Sanjay K.; Ahlawat, Sucheta

doi:10.1080/19420676.2017.1299035

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“…The motivation to promote social impact could act as a catalyst to overcome their fear of failure and increase their desire to enterprise. One of the government strategies could rely on accelerator programs devoted to support social entrepreneurs [68] to enhance their skills on the field and to expand interactions with diversified entrepreneurship agents. The alignment with the global sustainability agenda is relevant for tackling fundamental societal changes, induce individuals to embrace sustainable entrepreneurship [69] and enable the transition for a competitive position.…”

Section: Discussion and Policy Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Initiative: Building a Multi-Country Taxonomy

2021

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The main goal of this article is to appraise the existence of different patterns of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, to identify its relationship with Entrepreneurial Initiative, and recommend entrepreneurship policies that may influence the growth of entrepreneurial action. Without evidence on entrepreneurial ecosystems landscape and what determinants stimulate entrepreneurship in a given environment, policies could become flawed and miss the target. To address research purposes, the analysis was performed using data extracted from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Database carried out between 2010 and 2016. To ensure a longitudinal perspective, it was used a balanced panel approach followed by Logistic Regression estimations. The article offers a novel and systematic approach, the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Taxonomy, to overcome a disaggregated perspective on entrepreneurial ecosystems, between individual and context levels. Empirical findings capture four different country profiles, based on two measures: Entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneurial initiative. The results allow to compare the four groups and appraise significant disparities around entrepreneurship determinants, namely, the education factor. While education is commonly recognized as a positive influence on entrepreneurship, the results suggest a contradictory effect. The existence of differentiated profiles and its determinants points outs the importance of developing specific entrepreneurship policy packages attending group specificities.

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Section: Discussion and Policy Frameworkmentioning

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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Initiative: Building a Multi-Country Taxonomy

2021

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“…Business accelerators are emerging as a mechanism to connect early‐stage ventures to potential investors. The training and mentoring, as well as the signaling effect of participating in these selective programs, are likely to have a positive effect on the probability of receiving grant funding (Lall, Bowles, and Baird ; Pandey et al ). We include a dummy variable, venture previously accelerated, that indicates whether a venture has previously participated in an accelerator program (prior to the program to which it is currently applying).…”

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The Expat Gap: Are Local‐Born Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries at a Disadvantage When Seeking Grant Funding?

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2019

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Donor agencies and foundations use grants to stimulate entrepreneurial growth in developing countries. However, some practitioners have asked whether these grants tend to flow to expatriate entrepreneurs with ties to developed countries (where most grants originate), rather than to local entrepreneurs. This article tackles this question using a data set of 3,434 nascent ventures from 92 developing countries. The authors find that ventures with ties to a developed country are significantly more likely to raise grant financing and in more substantial amounts. Ventures with a founder born in a developed country are the most likely to receive grants, with a weaker effect when considering prior work experience in a developed country. This “expat gap” cannot be explained by differences in education level, prior experience, or ties to other developing countries. Donors seeking to support local entrepreneurs in developing countries should consider ways to make their recruitment and selection processes more equitable.

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“…corporate versus university accelerators). This focus on differentiating between kinds of accelerators can be observed in the proliferation of terminology to refer to accelerators visible in studies published in the past 2-3 years, ranging from "social accelerator" (Harima and Freudenberg 2019;Pandey et al 2017), and "ecosystem builder accelerator" (Prexl et al 2018), to "prescriptive accelerator" (Mansoori 2017), and "virtual accelerator" (Mitra and Euchner 2016). Our analysis of the main term used to refer to accelerators reveals that the most common term is accelerator (n=38), followed by a diversity of specific terms including corporate accelerator (n=13), accelerator program (n=8), startup accelerator (n=5), innovation accelerator (n=5), business accelerator (n=4), seed accelerator program (n=3), seed accelerator (n=3), impact accelerator (n=1), venture accelerator (n=1), social accelerator (n=1), prescriptive accelerator ( n=1), open innovation accelerator (n=1), investment accelerator (n=1), innovation platform (n=1), growth accelerator (n=1), and global accelerator (n=1).…”

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A systematic literature review on accelerators

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Over the past 15 years, accelerators emerged as a popular and distinct new form of intermediary organization, playing a key role in supporting entrepreneurial and innovation activities. To date, despite significant growth in accelerators research, there is still little understanding of how different forms of accelerators operate, and what outcomes they produce across different contexts. This paper reviews the existing scholarly research on accelerators using the Context-Intervention-Mechanism-Outcome framework and is based on the analysis of 98 research papers on accelerators published in the last 15 years. The analysis identifies four mechanisms which explain how accelerators operate and the role they play in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation: the validation of ideas and products; the provision of product development and models learning; the provision of support to increase startups' market access & growth; and the provision of support for innovation. The paper identifies the methodological and theoretical gaps in current research and provides avenues to support future research and industry practice.

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The Appeal of Social Accelerators: What do Social Entrepreneurs Value?

Cited by 47 publications

References 51 publications

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Initiative: Building a Multi-Country Taxonomy

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Initiative: Building a Multi-Country Taxonomy

The Expat Gap: Are Local‐Born Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries at a Disadvantage When Seeking Grant Funding?

A systematic literature review on accelerators

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