Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital - The Role of Innovation and Collaboration

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

1 Structural Changes and Entrepreneurial Human Capital

2 Collaboration and Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education Practices

3 Conclusion

References

Part I: Structural Changes and Entrepreneurial Human Capital

Is the Nature of Jobs Changing? The Role of Technological Progress and Structural Change in the Labour Market

1 Automation, Technological Progress and Employment

2 The Industrial Robots

3 ICT, Digital Revolution and Demand for Skills

4 The Routine-Biased Technological Change

5 Routinization and Structural Change: The Role of Occupations

6 The ``Task´´ Approach to Labour Market

7 Evidence on Job Polarization in Europe

7.1 Within-Industry and Between-Industry Components of Job Polarization: A Shift-Share Analysis

8 Technological Progress, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

9 Discussion and Conclusion

Appendix

References

Mutual Gains? The Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace

1 The History of Employee Engagement

2 The Concept of Employee Engagement and the Employer Scorecard

3 Are There Mutual Gains?

4 Conclusions and Implications

Appendix

References

Entrepreneurs´ Export Orientation and Growth Aspirations: The Moderating Role of Individual Human Capital

1 Introduction

2 Theory and Hypotheses

2.1 Entrepreneurs´ Export Orientation and Growth Aspirations

2.2 The Moderating Role of Individual Human Capital: Higher Education and Entrepreneurial Experience

3 Methodology

3.1 Data and Sample

3.2 Variables Measurement

3.3 Methodological Approach

4 Results

4.1 Descriptive Results

4.2 Multilevel Model Results

4.3 Robustness Tests

5 Discussion

References

Collaboration and Entrepreneurship Education: Requirements and Perspective

1 From philìa to societas: The Central Role of the Person

2 philìa, the Key of Business and Collaboration

3 The Lesson of Xenophon

4 From Xenophon to European Documents

5 Perspectives from Italy

References

Part II: Collaboration and Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education Practices

Entrepreneurship Education as a Service

1 Introduction

2 Entrepreneurship Education

3 Service Science Theory

4 The Service Science Canvas and Its Application to Entrepreneurship Education

5 Case: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

6 Conclusion

References

Collaborative Practices and Multidisciplinary Research: The Dialogue Between Entrepreneurship, Management, and Data Science

1 Introduction

2 Overview of Cases

2.1 Five Examples of Cross-Fertilizations Between Management, Entrepreneurship, and ICT

3 Conclusions and Implications for Entrepreneurship Research

References

What Happened Next? A Follow-Up Study of the Long-Term Relevance and Impact of a Collaborative Research Project

1 Introduction

2 The Collaborative Research Approach

2.1 Collaborative Process and Relationship: A Social Perspective

2.2 The Impact of Collaborative Research: Short Term and Long Term

3 Background of the Research Project: A Brief Summary

3.1 The Company

3.2 Overview of the Research Process

3.3 Overview of the Results

4 The Follow-Up Study

4.1 A New and Extended Meaning of Creativity

4.2 An Enhanced Role for the Company Archive

4.3 New Arenas for Collaboration

5 Discussion

5.1 The Social Nature of Collaborative Management Research

5.2 Criteria for Impactful Collaborative Research

6 Implications for Collaborative Research and Soft Skills

7 Conclusions

References

Enhancing Collaboration: Does a Game Make a Difference?

1 Introduction

2 Collaboration and Related Concepts

3 Cooperative Learning, Sociological Games and Collaboration

3.1 What Is a Sociological Game?

3.2 Theoretical Aspects Incorporated into the Game

4 And Finally: The Game

4.1 Trainer´s Guide

5 Data and Descriptive Statistics

6 Results

7 Conclusions

References