Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Volume 10 Issue 3

University spin-offs creation in the Latin American region: An exploratory study

Héctor Montiel-Campos

This paper aims to empirically explore the influence that different factors have on the creation of university spin-offs.

Institutional barriers to venture capital financing: an explorative study for the case of Iran

Saeed Shojaei, Mahmood Motavaseli, Ali Bitaab, Hasti Chitsazan, Ghanbar Mohammadi Elyasi

This paper aims to explore the barriers that constrain the venture capital (VC) financing in Iran based on the institutional theory.

Barriers to graduate employment and entrepreneurship in Nigeria

Elimma Ezeani

This paper aims to investigate the challenges faced by Nigerian university graduates youths, in finding suitable employment or in embarking on entrepreneurship ventures.

An inclusive approach to regulating the second economy: A tale of four Sub-Saharan African economies

Donath Olomi, Goodluck Charles, Norma Juma

This study aims to examine the experiences and lessons from formalisation initiatives in four sub-Saharan African countries. Drawing upon the three main theories that explain the…

Evaluation of the impact of an entrepreneurship training program in Recife, Brazil

Fernando José Moreira Coelho, Carla Marques, Armando Loureiro, Vanessa Ratten

The purpose of this paper is to understand in a qualitative context, the importance of the EMPRETEC entrepreneurship training in an emerging country context of Brazil. This helps…

Understanding the intentions of informal entrepreneurs in Peru

Fidel Amésquita Cubillas, Oswaldo Morales, Gareth H. Rees

This paper aims to focus on the influences that lead individuals to create and continue with operating informal business ventures in Peru. It seeks to empirically identify the…

Role of innovations in provision of competitiveness and innovational development of economy and overcoming of “underdevelopment whirlpools” in Russia and countries of Eastern Europe

Elena Popkova, Zhanna Gornostaeva, Natalia Tregulova

The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of innovations in provision of competitiveness and innovational development of economy and overcoming of “underdevelopment…

Analysis of the impacts of entrepreneurship training on growth performance of firms: Quasi-experimental evidence from Nigeria

Uchenna Efobi, Emmanuel Orkoh

Using quasi-experimental designs, the purpose of this paper is to study the effects of training entrepreneurs and such entrepreneurs going ahead to retrain its workers on the…