Entrepreneurship and Development: Realities and Future Prospects

176 Pages·2020·14.955 MB·English

by  Sonia Ben Slimane, Hatem M'henni

Entrepreneurship and Development

Smart Innovation Set
coordinated by
Dimitri Uzunidis
Volume 30
Entrepreneurship and
Development

Realities and Future Prospects

Sonia Ben Slimane
Hatem M’henni
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Part 1. Innovative Entrepreneurship and
Economic Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1. Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness
in Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Entrepreneurship, innovation and development:
key points of reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.1. Economic development and entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.2.2. New theory of economic growth, innovation
and entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.2.3. Complementary insights from industrial economy lenses . . . . . . 15
1.2.4. Theories of the firm, innovation systems and entrepreneurship . . . 18
Chapter 2. Towards an Integrative Literature of
Entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.2. The complex relationship between entrepreneurship
and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.3. Types of entrepreneurship and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.4. Towards a new vision of the entrepreneur in his environment? . . . . . 39
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Chapter 3. The Theoretical Emergence of an Innovative
National Entrepreneurship System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.2. Innovative entrepreneurship in a national innovation system . . . . . . 42
3.3. The role of the mix-policy in an innovation system . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.4. Innovation in an entrepreneurial ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.5. Towards an adapted innovative entrepreneurial system . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.6. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Part 2. An Innovative Entrepreneurial System in
Emerging Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 4. Emerging Countries, Development
Levels and Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.2. Necessity entrepreneurship versus innovative entrepreneurship
in emerging countries: a mitigated trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.2.1. Entrepreneurs’ profiles in emerging countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.2.2. Innovation and R&D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2.3. Institutional and cultural contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Chapter 5. Assessing Innovative Entrepreneurial
Performance of Emerging Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.2. Relationship between ease of entrepreneurship and the
capacity to innovate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.3. Relationship between the pro-entrepreneurship national
context and the capacity to innovate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.4. The determinants of entrepreneurship for innovation . . . . . . . . . . . 92
5.4.1. Government programs for entrepreneurship (GEP index) . . . . . . 93
5.4.2. R&D transfer (RTD index) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.4.3. Cultural and social norms (CSN index) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chapter 6. Outlooks for an Innovative Entrepreneurial
System in Emerging Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.2. The determinants of innovative entrepreneurship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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6.3. Outlooks for an adapted innovative business model . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
6.4. Education in an innovative entrepreneurial system . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143