scholarly journals Start-up entrepreneurs and university students in a co-learning mode

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juha Saukkonen ◽  
Jussi Nukari ◽  
Sharon Ballard ◽  
Jonathan Levie
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
University Education ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Increasing Demand

Start-up companies have been recognized as key drivers of wealth and job creation. Many students now in universities will therefore find their future employment in start-up companies, or will found them. Success in the start-up environment requires a specific set of skills. There is a growing supply of university education for new venture creation and an increasing demand for interaction between universities and start-up ventures so that knowledge can be transferred between them. This article evaluates the potential of a programme designed to enable holistic collaborative entrepreneurial learning between start-up companies and students. The authors measure the impacts of the programme on participants’ self-assessment of their capabilities and of critical capabilities for start-up success, comparing assessments before the start of the programme, at its end and 1 year subsequently. The results show that an impact on such assessments can be achieved and that the two distinct groups can learn together, but questions remain with regard to the retention of learning.

What Makes a Media Entrepreneur? Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention of Mass Communication Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Buschow ◽  
Rabea Laugemann
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future

Entrepreneurship and new venture creation are seen as important drivers of media industry’s change and renewal. However, whether newly founded companies will emerge in the future depends to a large extent on entrepreneurial individuals. Through a survey of students from 47 German universities ( N = 720), this study identifies critical factors that explain the entrepreneurial intention of today’s mass communication students, who are likely to be among the future start-up founders in journalism and media industry. Conclusions drawn indicate possibilities for the early identification of potential media entrepreneurs and their ongoing encouragement by journalism and mass communication educators.

scholarly journals Linking Entrepreneurial Innovation to Effectual Logic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2626
Author(s):  
Faiez Ghorbel ◽  
Wafik Hachicha ◽  
Younes Boujelbene ◽  
Awad M. Aljuaid
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Opportunity Identification ◽  
Frugal Innovation ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Innovation

The terms “innovation” and “effectuation” are frequently used but not in the same thought. In this order, publications linking innovation to effectuation are presented and discussed through a methodology based on the publish and perish tool. In the last two decades, effectuation has become an active criterion in entrepreneurship research. However, previous studies do not interconnect effectuation to the different innovation approaches. In order to overcome this gap, this paper focuses on studying innovation in an effectual context and linking different innovation approaches to effectual logic. Indeed, effectuation is a way of thinking that serves entrepreneurs in the processes of opportunity identification and new venture creation. Effectuation includes a set of decision-making principles expert entrepreneurs are observed to employ in situations of uncertainty (as defined in Society for Effectual Action). This article outlines the four most-studied innovation approaches from the date of their apparitions until January 2021: frugal innovation, disruptive innovation, lean start-up, and design thinking. In this context, effectuation as the essence of innovation must be clarified as a method that has similarities and differences with frugal and disruptive innovation, lean start-up, and design thinking. To validate the proposed theorical model, a bibliometrics tool, named “Harzing publish” or “perish”, is used. The main finding of this research affirms that the two most linked innovation approaches to effectuation are “lean start-up” and “design thinking”, compared to “frugal innovation” and “disruptive innovation”. In an entrepreneurial innovation context, design thinking and lean start-up are flexible tools that can stimulate and validate the effectual cycle.

Patterns of project-based organizing in new venture creation

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Auschra ◽  
Timo Braun ◽  
Thomas Schmidt ◽  
Jörg Sydow
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Different Types

Purpose The creation of a new venture is at the heart of entrepreneurship and shares parallels with project-based organizing: embedded in an institutional context, founders have to assemble a team that works on specified tasks within a strict time constraint, while the new venture undergoes various transitions. The purpose of this paper is to explore parallels between both streams of research and an increasing projectification of entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The study is based upon a case study of the Berlin start-up ecosystem including the analysis of interviews (n=52), secondary documents, and field observations. Findings The paper reveals that – shaped by their institutional context – patterns of project-like organizing have become pertinent to the new venture creation process. It identifies a set of facets from the entrepreneurial ecosystems – more specifically different types of organizational actors, their occupational backgrounds, and epistemic communities – that enable and constrain the process of new venture creation in a way that is typical for project-based organizing. Originality/value This study thus elaborates on how institutional settings enforce what has been called “projectification” in the process of new venture creation and discuss implications for start-up ecosystems.

Shortening the Learning Curve of Media Start-Ups in Accelerators

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidin Salamzadeh ◽  
Mirjana Radovic Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Learning Curve ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Do So

Business accelerators are playing a key role in facilitating the process of new venture creation. Start-ups generally look for the best accelerators to make their long journey short. Media start-ups also look for a supportive mechanism to fasten their start-up experience. In this process, one of the main issues is to shorten their learning curve which is possible by use of start-up accelerators. Therefore, this chapter deals with the idea that which factors are important in this regard. To do so, first, a brief review of the support mechanisms is presented, and it is discussed that how start-up accelerators shorten the learning curve of the start-ups. Then, five media start-ups which were created in accelerators are studied. All of the cases were established after 2014, since the accelerators started working from the same year. According to the findings, there are mainly six reasons for shortening of the learning curve by start-up accelerators, including: (1) Short creation period, (2) Seminars and courses, (3) Co-working space, (4) Divided teams, (5) Cohort peers, and (6) Mentorship.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Team Dynamics and New Venture Creation Process: An Exploratory Study Within a Start-Up Incubator

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824401878144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elli Diakanastasi ◽  
Angeliki Karagiannaki ◽  
Katerina Pramatari
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Team Dynamics ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team

Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Attitude & Intentions among university Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Ilham Hassan Fathelrahman Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Data ◽  
The University

This empirical study aims at assessing the attitudes, perception and intention of university students towards entrepreneurship and new venture creation with a focus on gender differences in entrepreneurial perceptions and intentions to start new business in the future. Data were collected using a questionnaire-based survey of 350 students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. The target population was the students in the final year in the University of Khartoum. The stratified sampling technique was used to select the sample size because the population consisted of a number of subgroups that differed in their characteristics. The results showed significant differences between genders in entrepreneurial intentions and its antecedents. Thus, it is important that customized approaches based on gender are needed for developing entrepreneurial intentions among college students.

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