Building Courage for Creativity: Fostering creative confidence in entrepreneurial education by empowering risk-taking behaviour

This thesis focuses on fostering creative confidence within the context of entrepreneurial education for the VMBO/HAVO/MBO levels. Recognising the creative potential in everyone, the challenge is to bridge the gap between being creative and having the confidence to use it.<br/><br/>The literature review identified the importance of giving...

The Role of Relational Governance in Achieving Sustainability in Infrastructure by using MEAT Criteria

Three cases in which sustainable MEAT criteria were used, are analysed in order to assess the role of relational governance. If the intrinsic motivation is present at the project team, flexibility, collaboration and risk taking could facilitate an environment in which sustainability through MEAT criteria can be achieved. The structure of the...

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...

The importance of innovation adoption and generation in linking entrepreneurial orientation with product innovation and farm revenues: The case of vegetable farmers in West Java, Indonesia

The growth of modern agrifood markets, especially in Indonesia, has stimulated entrepreneurially oriented farmers to seize business opportunities through innovation. This paper aims to investigate in a dynamic agrifood market if entrepreneurial orientation enhances innovation adoption and generation and if both of these actions enhance...