The Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

By Randall G. Holcombe. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, background): “different sources can lead to the existence of an opportunity (Holcombe 2003): imbalance in the market (change in preferences), factors that create new production possibilities (elimination of administrative restrictions, technological advances) and entrepreneurial activity (opportunities that come ”
The alert and creative entrepreneur: a clarification (2009, background): “In several important papers Holcombe (1999, 2003) has perceptively explored the interface between Schumpeter’s view and my own.”
An Essay on the Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunity (2007, background): “The entrepreneurial activity of the developer of the mouse did not use up an entrepreneurial opportunity, it created many more entrepreneurial opportunities.’’ ( Holcombe, 2003, p. 34, emphasis added)”
Explaining SME performance with fsQCA: The role of entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneur motivation, and opportunity perception (2021, background): “Opportunities can be sourced in new markets and technologies (Teece, 1998) and can result from innovative activity (Holcombe, 2003).”
A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors (2014, background): “These changes create a disequilibrium, which an individual can exploit (Holcombe 2003; Cohen and Winn 2007).”
What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity? (2007, background): “Specifically, without a clear understanding of the nature of opportunity, formulating logically consistent prescriptions for both policy and practice is problematic because any theoretical basis of empirical results would be incomplete ( Holcombe, 2003 ).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “…and other stakeholders, these alternative opportunities for action 3 I am merely referring to Pareto efficiency, not Pareto optimality (see Holcombe, 2003a for an explanation of the difference). are provided by the socio-economic conditions in which these various agents are structurally…”
Academics’ start-up intentions and knowledge filters: an individual perspective of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (2013, unknown): “cific knowledge, time, and place (Holcombe 2003).”
The role of market and technological knowledge in recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities (2012, background): “Entrepreneurship researchers, following in the Austrian economics tradition, essentially argue for a positive linear relationship between the amount of knowledge the individual has and the amount of entrepreneurial opportunities recognized by the individual, given the same level of alertness (Gaglio”