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Using household panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey and satellite re-analysis temperature and rainfall data, we present the first study to examine the impact of weather shocks on entrepreneurship. We measure temperature and rainfall shocks at the postcode level, and find that an increase in weather shocks in the previous period is associated with a decline in the probability of self-employment in the next period. We find suggestive evidence that health, cognitive functioning and economic activity are mechanisms through which temperature shocks transmit to entrepreneurship. The key insight of this study is that it is less likely that those directly affected by climate events will act entrepreneurially, at least in the short run.

The case for repositioning entrepreneurship education (EE) as first-person transformation in classrooms envisioned as spaces for practical reasoning, has lately received significant scholarly attention. This case aligns with a broader need to generate more impactful learning outcomes that accurately reflect the nature of the entrepreneurship phenomenon. Notwithstanding, how a theory-praxis nexus results in first-person transformation remains underdeveloped. Accordingly, this paper advances interiority as an operationalizing mechanism for developing entrepreneurship as first-person transformation. Thus, we contribute to shifting the focus of learning from what we know, to how we know in a process of intellectual self-awareness. We then offer a conceptual framework that connects three realms of knowing: practical, relational, and theoretical, with interiority as the fulcrum. We discuss how this approach contributes to impactful entrepreneurial learning, seen through the emergence of entrepreneurial mindsets in reflective student practice.

Given communist ideologies discourage individual enterprise, this research investigates whether eliminating compulsory Marxist-Leninist indoctrination from schools influences later life self-employment. Focusing on a mid-1950s reform in Poland that revoked the Communist indoctrination curriculum while holding other aspects constant, the study leverages variation in exposure based on annual school enrollment cut-off birthdates. Contrary to expectation, the empirical analysis finds no discernible effect of indoctrination removal on later-life self-employment. Additionally, the study examines whether Polish immigrants exposed to reform and arriving in the US after 1960 exhibit increased self-employment propensity, but finds no significant differences. Overall, the study's findings highlight negligible impacts of the revocation of Communist indoctrination in Polish schools on self-employment.

Based on public choice theory, this study examines how the relative focus on amenities-to-infrastructure spending is associated with the concentration and the subsequent volume of new business licenses. Using data from the Aldermanic Menu Program and business license records in Chicago, the key insight from our study suggests a "seeding and spreading" effect, where increased amenities-to-infrastructure spending is associated with a less diverse distribution of new business licenses, but that in turn, is associated with an increase in the overall volume of new businesses licenses in the following period. The effect sizes are small. The study contributes to the literature on urban economics and entrepreneurship by extending the concept of amenity-focused public spending.

Entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a creative solution for individuals after they have been released from prison given the difficulties they face in finding viable employment. However, considering that entrepreneurship inherently involves maneuvering around and overcoming obstacles, it is likely an even more complicated endeavor for these individuals. A thick problem description of entrepreneurship after prison is needed to better understand the unique challenges associated with this unconventional entrepreneurial journey. Drawing on the existing literature coupled with semistructured interviews with five individuals who started businesses after being incarcerated, we utilize an empathy mapping tool to explicate our findings. We then outline key insights and offer recommendations on how to move forward.

In recent decades, quantitative studies on university spinoffs (USOs) have begun to proliferate across disciplines. This study aims to systematically consolidate the measures used in the extant USO research into theoretical constructs, and connect the constructs to the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) perspective. In doing so, this study examines the effect of university-level characteristics on the number of USO establishments and USO performance; it also evaluates measurement validities that can reflect constructs. The systematic review and thematic coding reveal four groups of 14 constructs from the measures identified in prior studies: university general characteristics, university research characteristics, university entrepreneurial characteristics, and technology transfer office characteristics. Our meta-analyses indicate that the relationships between the constructs and USO outcomes are generally significant, thereby providing evidence of the convergent and nomological validities of the measures. Research design has a limited impact on the relationships, but country moderates several relationships between university characteristics and USO outcomes. Following our meta-analytic review, we explain the contribution to university entrepreneurship ecosystem research and suggest a theoretically triangulated model for future studies.

This paper argues that the framework of entrepreneurs-as-scientists, portraying entrepreneurs as tasked with making precise and reliable inferences, and expressed in certain mathematical language, trivializes entrepreneurial practice. I highlight the challenges that arise from replacing the abstract notations of mathematical language with names from ordinary language of entrepreneurship. Co-opting of ordinary language for mathematical purposes distorts our understanding of business ideas, venture development, and entrepreneurial processes. At stake are different conceptions of the future. One creates the future within language, the other accepts that the future lies outside of language as an untameable realm of perpetual novelty.

Research conducted over the last three decades confirms that dopaminergic personality traits (Openness, Extraversion and the Industriousness aspect of Conscientiousness) are prominent among entrepreneurs. We highlight the continuum between dopaminergic traits, dimensions, temperaments, symptoms and psychiatric conditions (bipolar spectrum conditions, ADHD, substance and behavioral addictions, and OCPD) among entrepreneurs, and how behavioral manifestations of this continuum affect entrepreneurial action. Despite the pathological potential, the connection with some favorable outcomes of dopaminergic traits and psychiatric conditions suggests that atypical dopamine physiology may be one biomarker of the neurodiversity that distinguishes, empowers and endangers entrepreneurs. By showing the dopaminergic underpinnings of traits, dimensions, symptoms and conditions among entrepreneurs, we offer a unifying framework that contextualizes findings within the construct of dopaminergic differences – a framework that integrates otherwise isolated findings about the personality traits and psychiatric conditions of entrepreneurs. In other words, the neurodiversity biomarkers and bio-psycho-social characteristics found among entrepreneurs often reflect a polygenic endophenotype that features atypical dopamine physiology.

Transnational social entrepreneurs leverage their cross-border knowledge and experiences to create and exploit opportunities in multiple markets. However, this knowledge and experience is not homogeneous or equally distributed among them. In this paper, we examine how the social class experiences of 18 transnational social entrepreneurs from the African diaspora living in the West influence their transnational social venturing. We identify four types of Transnational Social Class Experience (TSCE)—Grounded, Elite, Fallen and Elevated—each associated with a different approach to transnational social venturing. Our key contribution is introducing and unpacking the concept of Transnational Social Venturing Advantage (TSVA): the unique benefits that transnational social entrepreneurs can gain when their economic experiences across multiple countries intersect with the varied sociocultural environments they encounter. We also develop a framework that elucidates the connections between TSCE and social venturing approaches through TSVA. Taken together, our study advances the literature on transnational social venturing by unpacking the social class experience dynamics that enable transnational social entrepreneurs to access resources and understand their beneficiaries. It also advocates for a shift beyond a low versus high social class dichotomy in the broader (transnational) entrepreneurship discourse to a spectrum-based approach that accounts for social class experiences gained across borders.