Entrepreneurship Competition Research Articles

Consumer Needs Analysis as a Base for Sustainable Development of Entrepreneurship

Knowledge about consumer needs, factors and motives affecting behavior is one of the ways of ensuring entrepreneurship competitiveness. Authors present the results of the study on the A. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs within the context of consumer behavior components affecting consumer behavior from a perspective of entrepreneurial decision making. Authors employ well known methods of research – statistical analysis, grouping, evaluation, predicting etc. In the course of the present research by synthesis of theoretical developments and practical experience decision making model is made. A. Maslow’s theory serves as the basis for developing a range of theories dealing with consumer behavior, therefore, when developing the consumer behavior model in Latvia, the author decided to integrate the better known theories. The use of models prepared by the authors in sales, entrepreneurship, and other sectors of economy provide an opportunity to reasonably plan investments for the relevant time period, to avoid mistakes, and to improve the overall economic effectiveness of the company’s operations and usefulness of resource utilization.

Analysis of Key Factors Affecting Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Ability from a Big Data Perspective

To achieve rapid social and economic growth, society has raised expectations for the overall quality and competence of today’s college students in the environment of big data. College students must have a strong spirit of creation and entrepreneurship, as well as a precise level of professional knowledge and practical talents. Based on this backdrop, a weighted K-means clustering method (WK-means) is utilized to investigate the key determinants of college students’ entrepreneurial ability and their interactions with important text content, such as the college student innovation and entrepreneurship competition. To begin, extract a number of characteristics from the sample of entrepreneurial college students, particularly the entrepreneurial ability components. The sample is then divided into two groups. Entrepreneurs who succeed are categorized as positive, while those who fail are classified as negative. The clustering result yields the feature weight of each sample. The weight of each attribute is proportionate to its importance. Second, using the multivariate relationship analysis approach, the correlation between various factors is determined, and the impact of various factors on college students’ entrepreneurial capacity is further investigated. The results of the experiment demonstrate that adaptability and learning ability are the most important characteristics influencing college students’ entrepreneurial aptitude, whereas self-control has little impact.

Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience.

This study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of entrepreneurial intention, there are significant differences in gender, entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial competition experience, and family background of self-employment. (2) There are significant differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurship education in gender, entrepreneurial competition experience, and the family background of self-employment. (3) In the relationship among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurship education is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significantly and positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays a complete mediating role between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy also has a suppressing effect on the relationship between the two. (4) Entrepreneurial competition experience moderates the second half of the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Finally, the study offers several proposals for the teaching practice of entrepreneurship education.

Podnikatelské soutěže a jejich význam

This contribution deals with the topic of business competitions and their importance for many subjects belonging to the business environment. The contribution was created on the basis of a systematic analysis of available foreign sources, focusing on the topic of business competitions. Based on this analysis, a theoretical framework was created with all concepts related to this subject matter. The theoretical framework is followed by a deeper analysis of selected articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The aim of the contribution is a) to theoretically define entrepreneurial competitions together with other terms that are directly related to the topic, b) to analyze available articles and c) to draw relevant conclusions based on a selected sample of available literature, which will bring new knowledge to the theory. The focus of the article was chosen due to the growing number of business competitions not only in the Czech Republic, but worldwide. The added value of the article consists of a) defining the theoretical basis of the topic of business competitions b) identifying the meaning of business competitions. The biggest limitation of this contribution is the limited amount of available data on entrepreneurship competitions, which is also confirmed by a foreign source

Технологическое предпринимательство как инструмент перехода на инновационный тип развития экономики

The subject of the research is technological entrepreneurship as a basis for ensuring a better potential for the development of domestic and foreign economies, which makes it possible to serve as an additional source of investment in knowledge and innovative technologies in comparison with state financing of traditional projects and programs. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that technological entrepreneurship has not been classified by type to date and has been sufficiently evaluated. The purpose of the work is to identify modern tools of technological entrepreneurship and substantiate approaches to the multifactorial assessment of its role for the development of the Russian economy. For this purpose, the essence of technological entrepreneurship in the conditions of the transition of the Russian economy to an innovative path of development is analyzed, the tools used abroad and in Russian practice are considered; methods for evaluating technological entrepreneurship are developed and proposed, taking into account the positive experience of its application. The article describes startups as initial forms of technological entrepreneurship. The level of competitiveness and innovation activity of technological entrepreneurship is determined on the basis of the global competitiveness index and the global innovation index. The definition of technological entrepreneurship is given. It is concluded that this study can be used as a basis for the development of the theory and practice of technological entrepreneurship and its evaluation options.

Research on the Teaching Mode of "Internet + Course Ideological and Political" Collaborative Education

As a new paradigm to solve the fundamental problem of who and how to cultivate people in colleges and universities, curriculum ideology and politics should be fully integrated with curriculum education in the Internet + era, so as to improve the teaching effectiveness in the field of value guidance and ideology, and make curriculum ideology and politics more effective. function is more pronounced. The main body of the ideological and political coordination of the curriculum includes campus culture, corporate culture, industry culture, social culture, market culture, etc.; the collaborative content includes material culture, conceptual culture, and institutional culture. Based on the "Internet + Curriculum Ideological and Political" collaborative education in higher vocational education is not a simple addition of elements, but from the perspective of how to "integrate elements", this paper discusses the combination of ideological and political education, community culture education, special lectures and legal education. People, vocational skills competition method education, innovation and entrepreneurship competition education, etc. in classroom teaching, social practice, campus culture education and professional curriculum teaching to form an organic community, put forward the "six combination" teaching model, including educational means, content Innovate education methods, extend the methods and paths of ideological and political implementation of courses; enrich educational content and optimize the effectiveness of ideological and political education in courses; strengthen value guidance and promote the requirements of three-round education; improve teaching evaluation and encourage students to learn by themselves.

Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization

This study analyzes CrossFit as a marketplace culture that articulates several key dimensions of reflexive modernization. Through this analysis, we illuminate a different set of theoretical relationships than have been addressed by previous accounts of physically challenging, risk-taking consumption practices. To provide analytic clarity, we first delineate the key differences between reflexive modernization and the two interpretive frameworks—the existential and neoliberal models—that have framed prior explanations of consumers’ proactive risk-taking. We then explicate the ways in which CrossFit’s marketplace culture shapes consumers’ normative understandings of risk and their corresponding identity goals. Rather than combatting modernist disenchantment (i.e., the existential model) or building human capital for entrepreneurial competitions (i.e., the neoliberal model), CrossFit enthusiasts understand risk-taking as a means to build their preparatory fitness for unknown contingencies and imminent threats. Our analysis bridges a theoretical chasm between studies analyzing consumers’ proactive risk-taking behavior and those addressing the feelings of anxiety and uncertainty induced by the threat of uncontrollable systemic risks.

Spurring inclusive entrepreneurship and student development post-C19: synergies between research and business plan competitions

PurposeAcademic innovation strives to benefit from an ample talent pool, and entrepreneurship and research competitions constitute an integral part of the effort. This prompts discussions about how to optimize the impact of interdisciplinary learning, especially for less-traditional participants. The main purpose of this article is to describe how synergies between research and business plan competitions can facilitate inclusive engagement and enhanced development of transferable skills.Design/methodology/approachA case illustration addresses the following questions: (1) what skills can be enhanced through a single project toward parallel participation in research and business plan competitions? (2) How can synergies between research and business plan competitions support more inclusive student development? The case illustration outlines the process and outcomes of an initiative with three first-gen business students, two female and two international.FindingsThe case illustration describes how synergies and alignments of deadliness between research and business plan competitions enhanced the learning process by facilitating more opportunities to showcase learning and receive feedback. In addition, the parallel preparation facilitated student inclusion by providing purposeful authentic practice in a project envisioned by the students. As a result of the 2019 learning experience, students and their employers continue to value in 2021 the effective development of transferable skills.Originality/valuePrevious studies examine independently entrepreneurship initiatives, science technology engineering arts and mathematics (STEAM) initiatives, transferable skills and pedagogy that support inclusive education. This manuscript describes the option of synergies between research and entrepreneurship competitions to support more inclusive student development. In addition, it provides recommendations for impact when scaling-up synergies.

Situation of Logistics Management Students Participating in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Activities

With the development of social economy, innovation and entrepreneurship have made great contributions to society. In order to actively respond to policies and keep pace with the times, colleges and universities encourage students to actively participate in innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. This article starts from the questionnaire situation of logistics management students participating in innovation and entrepreneurship activities in a school, analyzes the reasons that promote and hinder students from participating in innovation and entrepreneurship activities, and puts forward further suggestions based on the current situation and resources.

Influencing Factors of Logistics Management Students’ Participation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitions

In the era of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation”, society has gradually increased the requirements for students’ innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. The article takes the logistics management major of Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College as the research object, uses the analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to analyze the influencing factors of students’ participation in innovation and entrepreneurship activities with targeted solutions proposed in the final.

Social entrepreneurship in obesity prevention: A scoping review.

SummaryWe conducted a scoping review of social ventures in obesity and developed a taxonomy of their interventions and business models. Sources included PubMed, Business Source Premier, ABI Inform, Factiva, Google, Facebook, Twitter, social entrepreneurship networks (Ashoka, Skoll, and Schwab), and social entrepreneurship competitions. Our review identified 512 social ventures in 32 countries; 93% originated from developed countries. Their areas of intervention included diet and nutrition, urban farming, physical activity, access to healthy food, and health literacy. They addressed factors beyond health such as education, affordability, employment, and the built and natural environments. To support their programs of work, social ventures developed various business models with multiple revenue or resource streams. Social ventures designed double‐duty interventions that were aligned with additional meaningful social or environmental objectives. This “bundling” of objectives allowed social ventures to appeal to a wider target audience. Most of the social ventures were initiated, supported, or sustained by local communities. Social ventures offer financially self‐sufficient approaches to obesity reduction and could potentially relieve the burden on healthcare systems. Policymakers should consider social entrepreneurs as partners in obesity prevention.

Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition.

Under the background of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation,” entrepreneurship and innovation for college students not only alleviates the current social employment pressure but also sets off the upsurge of their entrepreneurship. It is a significant field to research the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates as potential entrepreneurs, which covers the study of entrepreneurial intention from the perspective of personal traits and entrepreneurial cognition. This article studies entrepreneurial intention from two aspects: irrational positive emotions and rational entrepreneurial cognition, which aims to reveal the mechanism of positive emotions and entrepreneurial cognition on entrepreneurial intention. After investigating 288 college students participating in entrepreneurial competitions, establishing structural equations, and using SmartPLS software for data analysis, the research result showed that positive emotions significantly positively impact the three scripts of entrepreneurial cognition: arrangement scripts, willing scripts, and ability scripts. The arrangement, willing, and ability scripts positively influence entrepreneurial intention, while positive emotions do not affect entrepreneurial intention. Arrangement scripts and ability scripts have a full mediating effect between positive emotions and entrepreneurial intention. Based on these findings, we provide suggestions for the government and society, schools, and individual students on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Research on the Drivers of Entrepreneurship Education Performance of Medical Students in the Digital Age

COVID-19 has made the entire society pay more attention to medical students training. Medicine development is inseparable from the spirit of innovation, focusing on cultivating medical students' innovative awareness and improving entrepreneurship education performance, which has an irreplaceable effect on both the students themselves and the society. This study is based on the ridge regression model to study the driving factors of the entrepreneurship education performance of medical students. Compared with traditional multiple regression, it can improve the consistency of parameter estimation and obtain more realistic results. Based on a large sample of empirical survey data of 24,677 medical students in China, this study analyzed the driving factors of the entrepreneurship education performance of medical students and found that medical students of different genders have differences in entrepreneurship education performance; the digital economy impacts entrepreneurship education performance of medical students; entrepreneurship course, entrepreneurship faculty, entrepreneurship competition, entrepreneurship practice, and entrepreneurship policy have a driving effect on the entrepreneurship education performance of medical students. Meanwhile, the impact of entrepreneurship policy is the most obvious, followed by entrepreneurship practice and entrepreneurship competition, followed by entrepreneurship course and entrepreneurship faculty.

Entrepreneurship Education, Psychological Cognition, and Entrepreneurship Activities: An Analysis Based on a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis.

At present, research in the field of college students' entrepreneurship has proliferated, but these studies tend to analyze the net benefits of various factors on entrepreneurial activities, which are affected by the configuration effects of multiple factors; hence, it remains unclear whether entrepreneurial education can make graduates more efficient to started their own companies. To fill this gap in the literature, drawing on general systems theory and using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we take 1,87,914 undergraduate and junior college students from 1,231 colleges and universities in China as a sample to explore the relationships among the five conditions in the entrepreneurship education environment and cognitive level (i.e., the quality of staff, subject curriculum, entrepreneurial competition, intentions, and opportunity identifications) and entrepreneurial activities. The fsQCA results show that none of these factors are sufficient for entrepreneurial activity. In contrast, three combinations of the five conditions (i.e., co-creation type, competition-oriented environment, and entrepreneurship education that fits under the guidance of entrepreneurial intention) can produce high entrepreneurial activity, as well as substitution and complementarity among the various elements within the configuration. These results show that the combined effect of the five conditions is more conducive to the entrepreneurial activities of college students. Finally, after a discussion of the study's findings, theoretical, and practical contributions are analyzed with regard to the field of entrepreneurship in Chinese colleges, and alternative options indicate that college students are more likely to become entrepreneurs in the future.

Analyzing Competitiveness of Small Business and Entrepreneurship of Textile Industry in the Namangan Region by Swot-Analysis

Textile industry is one of the leading and dynamically developing industries in Uzbekistan. It plays a significant role in resolving state problems, meets essential interests of many regions, fosters their harmonic development, provides the population employment and improves people well-being and renders help in establishment and development of small and private business. The most important trend in using internal reserves and possibilities of the country is gradual increase in deep treatment of home raw material and raising volumes and nomenclature of products with high added value. For the last 29 years the industry has become a leader in raising foreign investment and in the field of export of products with high added value. In spite of the fact that textile manufacturing is traditional for Uzbekistan, it still possesses a serious potential for further growth. The country's large raw material base, labour intensity of light industry sectors, the availability of a rather mass market in adjoining states make the development of textile and clothing industry a potential driver of economic growth in Uzbekistan. The use of this potential and shaping a stable textile and clothing sector in the country is a priority line in the development of national economy. Small enterprises play a serious role in textile industry development. The authors carried out SWOT-analysis, which is a key tool of finding competitiveness, of small enterprises in the country. By this method they identified strong and weak sides, opportunities and threats of their functioning, which can help to elaborate innovative strategy of development.

Oil Tanker Transportation and Entrepreneurial Competition in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: Historical Retrospective and Modern Assessments

Oil Tanker Transportation and Entrepreneurial Competition in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: Historical Retrospective and Modern Assessments

Entrepreneurial Intent: Contribution to Study the Determinants among Students Participating in Entrepreneurial Competition Projects

Entrepreneurial intent is a determining factor in entrepreneurship. It precedes the behavioral act of developing one's own business. Developing entrepreneurial intent requires gathering a number of necessary but not sufficient conditions. The present study will try to identify, based on a quantitative study conducted among 120 students involved in entrepreneurial competition projects organized in the city of Agadir (Morocco), the determinants of entrepreneurial intent. The arithmetic mean of 15 variables identified by literature review and interviews was calculated. The (t) test, principal component and regression analysis were used to classify, categorize and measure the links between the variables. The results indicate that the top five entrepreneurial intent determinants are Self-confidence, Self-Efficacy, Motivation, Technical and Technological Skills, Goal of fulfillment. The most important category of determinants is related to the attitudes and behaviors of students compared with the category of technical and professional factors and also the category of factors related to the family and social environment. These results can contribute to the entrepreneurship development in the city of Agadir (Morocco) by helping students to create their own business and therefore minimize unemployment.

ПОРАХЎРЛИК ЖИНОЯТЛАРИГА ҚАРШИ КУРАШИШИНИНГ ТАРИХИ

The article analyzes the history of the fight against corruption. The views of scientists are also examined. In this article, the scourge of corruption has the following negative consequences for thestate, namely: serious damage to the state's reputation in the international arena; causing citizens to lose confidence in leaders, government, political parties and the rule of law; dismantles market mechanisms, that is, the market belongs not to competitive entrepreneurs, but to entrepreneurs who receive benefits in exchange for bribes; creates favorable conditions for the existence of organizedcrime, which in turn threatens the national security of the state; it was also pointed out that social tension in society can lead to conflicts, political instability and the activation of terrorist structures

Forming entrepreneurial teams: Mixing business and friendship

Founding teams can form utilizing either a resource seeking strategy (instrumental focus on complementary skills) or an interpersonal attraction strategy (close relationships with similar others in an immediate network). Yet, utilizing both (dual) formation strategies may be more beneficial. Our paper provides novel theory and evidence to shed light on why and how a dual formation strategy, although challenging and difficult to execute, may be critical for early performance. We theorize that teams that employ dual formation strategies from the onset develop stronger transactive memory systems, owing to close relationships that facilitate smooth coordination among founders who specialize in complementary tasks. Stronger transactive memory systems thus mediate the relationship between initial formation strategy and early entrepreneurial success. Findings from two field observational studies and a field intervention study are consistent with our theory: teams formed based on a dual strategy raised greater seed funding on Kickstarter – a leading crowdfunding platform (Study 1), were more successful in a prestigious entrepreneurial competition (Study 2), and gained more profits from selling their initial products (Study 3). Our research advances knowledge on entrepreneurial team formation and offers practical recommendations to facilitate this process at such nascent, but critical stages.

The incorporation of entrepreneurship into social work education: combining social and commercial norms

ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the field of entrepreneurship education has undergone exponential growth. Courses in entrepreneurship are now found in many different fields of education, including ones that have a social rather than a commercial focus. In line with this, courses in social entrepreneurship are now common within social work education. Entrepreneurship offers new opportunities in terms of dealing with societal problems. Still, entrepreneurship is based on rationales that potentially conflict with the norms found in social work education. In order to find ways to implement entrepreneurship in education, a better understanding of the different norms must be developed. In this article, the potentially conflicting norms are explored through a case study of social work students in Denmark who participated in an entrepreneurship competition. The study indicates that the students felt alienated because of the commercial and competitive aspects, which seemed to be predominant within the entrepreneurship community. On the other hand, the students’ focus on social issues seemed to be in line with the ideals and norms of entrepreneurship. Thus, both differences and similarities seem to exist between the different institutions and traditions explored. At the end of the article, future perspectives and potentials regarding social work education and entrepreneurship are discussed.