Accelerating the growth of start-ups in the Smart City Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: an empirical analysis of the Brainport Smart District (BSD) in Helmond, the Netherlands

Smart City has become one of the most popular topics in recent years due to the emergence of innovative digital technologies. Start-ups have been active in an innovation system defined as Smart City Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (SCEE) in this study, where stakeholders in the Smart City industry are involved and interact with each other, including...

Becoming Entrepreneurial: A Strategy for a Circular Built Environment

This paper aims to provide insights into the role of ‘Entrepreneurial Behaviour’ in stimulating the transition of the Built Environment from a linear economic model to a Circular Economy. Implementation of the circular principles is riddled with regulatory, cultural, financial, and other sector-specific barriers that stall transition efforts and...

Entrepreneurial risk-taking in sustainable energy: University spin-off firms and market introduction in northwest Europe

Universities are cradles of innovation, with many start-ups involved in sustainable energy solutions. The extent in which such solutions reach the market and the kind of risk-related factors young firms encounter, are hardly known and understood. We aim to clarify market introduction and focus on the empirics of firms' risk-taking behavior...