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World Turned Upside Down: Entrepreneurial Decline, Its Reluctant Myths and Troubling Realities

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to attempt to understand why the popular academic and policy field of promoting, studying and evangelising "entrepreneurship" should have been associated with great success but, in the past twenty years or more in many advanced economies, so much failure.From the US to lesser and developing countries, emerging economies and the European Union, entrepreneurship, especially in regard to start-ups and particularly high-tech start-ups, has been in constant more or less recent decline.This is seldom registered in the mainstream literature where a positive and benign profile is generally presented.The paper examines this phenomenon, ties it partly with the "productivity paradox" and seeks tentative hypotheses in relation to the apparent illusions if not delusions regarding "entrepreneurship".

Source: Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity

DOI: 10.3390/joitmc5020022

Author: Philip Cooke

Institution: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $811