Entrepreneurs and innovation: The contingent role of institutional factors

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Entrepreneurs play a key role in introducing innovations into the market. However, the extant literature has found that the degree of innovation within new ventures varies considerably and that these differences can be related to the individual factors of entrepreneurs. In this article, we go one step further and suggest that the influence of individual factors on innovation is contingent on the institutional context. We use a sample of more than 140,000 entrepreneurs from 101 countries that have participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project between 2005 and 2015. Our results show that individual characteristics of the entrepreneur, such as risk tolerance, entrepreneurial alertness, education and previous entrepreneurial experience, influence innovation in new ventures but that their effect is reinforced by an institutional context with high economic freedom.

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Title: International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship

Abbreviated Title: International Small Business Journal

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN (Print): 0266-2426

ISSN (Electronic): 1741-2870

Publication date Created: September 2018

Publication date (Electronic): April 20 2018

Publication date (Print): September 2018

Volume: 36

Issue: 6

Pages: 686-711

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[1 ]University of Zaragoza, Spain

[2 ]University of Zaragoza, Spain; University of Deusto, Spain

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DOI: 10.1177/0266242618766235

SO-VID: ecd314d7-4ba3-4ce3-93a9-90959eb80ca7

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