The Role of Human Capital in Technological Entrepreneurship

By Mike Wright, Keith M. Hmieleski, Donald S. Siegel, Michael D. Ensley. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Employability skills: Perspectives from a knowledge-intensive industry (2015, background): “…relates, at first glance, to knowledge requisite for career success in the specific industry sector surveyed, however it can be argued that the skills construct applies to any knowledge‐intensive sector seeking sustainability through systemic innovation (Christensen, 1997; Wright et al., 2007).”
The downside of being ‘up’: entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect and firm performance (2011, background): “Further, ongoing research in this area has identifi ed several characteristics of top managers in an organization that are signifi cantly related to fi rm performance, for example, top managers’ education and experience (i.e., human capital, Wright et al., 2007).”
Intellectual Property Protection and the Formation of Entrepreneurial Growth Aspirations (2010, background): “Education is a valuable, inalienable resource (Davidsson et al., 2003; Shrader et al., 2007; Wright et al., 2007): acquiring it demands time and money.”
University support and the creation of technology and non-technology academic spin-offs (2016, background): “Together with the number of patent applications filed and the level of income through contract research, the general output measures of TTOs include the number of spin-offs created (Wright et al. 2007).”
A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model (2008, background): “For nascent ventures, the entrepreneur‟s human capital, as expressed in her education, experience, and skills, constitutes arguably the most important initial resource endowment (Shrader and Siegel, 2007; Wright et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurs and innovation: The contingent role of institutional factors (2018, background): “Opportunity discovery is not easy to analyse; there are some arguments suggesting that it depends on the extent of previous information held by entrepreneurs (Kato et al., 2015; Venkataraman, 1997), which, in turn, depends on their stock human capital (Becker, 1964; Wright et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurs’ Improvisational Behavior and Firm Performance: A Study of Dispositional and Environmental Moderators (2013, background): “First, we focus on lead entrepreneurs—individuals who are both founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of their firm—because such persons have an inordinate impact on the strategic direction and performance of their firms (Wright et al., 2007).”
Integrating Discovery and Creation Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Action: The Relative Roles of Founding CEO Human Capital, Social Capital, and Psychological Capital in Contexts of Risk Versus Uncertainty (2015, background): “…creation.2 Human capital: contextual differences in the value of ‘what you know’ Human capital is the stock of personal knowledge, skills, and abilities that are accumulated by individuals through investments in education, training, and other types of experience (Becker, 1964, Wright et al., 2007).”