Innovative Entrepreneurship

With the advent of industrialization, many distinguished personalities took steps by putting forward new ideas that revolutionized the world. They are known as famous entrepreneurs of their time such as Thomas Edition, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford who gave birth to huge companies that were designed to create enormous value and better opportunities to the communities. Since 1980, the term “Entrepreneurship” has become an interested topic among many social scientists and scholars related to management. We will examine the entrepreneur category on the basis on economics development put forward by Clarence H. Denhof.

This research project is an empirical case study from Thailand. The research aims to provide empirical evidence of how innovation development in a local farming community enterprise is promoted through knowledge exchange collaboration by the local university and public authorities. This form of trilateral partnership is known as the triple helix model of collaboration. The empirical case setting was a single-site case study bounded by two investigative propositions, including knowledge networks and innovative entrepreneurship. The selected case was an organic rice farming community from the Northeast region of Thailand. The research conduct was a qualitative grounded theory approach using focus group interview and documentary analysis for the research data collection. The study discovered that public supports engaged with the collaboration in the form of financial support scheme that shaped the delivery of the university outreach. The delivered university outreach then helped promote knowledge-based entrepreneurship development in the studied organic rice farming community enterprise. The university's essential contribution to the collaboration was required knowledge for innovation development for the business of the enterprise. The vital knowledge transferred was used to promote innovation in the enterprise, especially its production and marketing advancement. However, the study also found critical challenges requiring further development. These challenges were the lack of local farming technology creation, financial management, and skills improvement involving these challenging determinants.

Résumé :
Le Maroc a connu une augmentation galopante des Digital Wallets depuis la mise en place de
cette solution mobile en l’année 2018. Cependant, la période allant de 2015 à 2020 est marquée
par une tendance à la baisse de la création des entreprises innovantes en TIC. Dans le cadre de
cet article, et pour apporter une explication à cette réalité, nous essayerons de répondre à la
question suivante : Quelle relation entre les facteurs clés de création des nouvelles firmes
technologiques et l'éclosion des entreprises innovantes en Paytech au Maroc ?
Pour répondre à notre question centrale, nous avons eu recours au réalisme scientifique en tant
que positionnement épistémologique, et la démarche hypothético-déductive en tant que
démarche de recherche.
En vue d’étudier nos hypothèses de recherche, nous avons construit un échantillon de 30
individus travaillant auprès des acteurs de l’écosystème de ces entreprises. Pour réussir l’analyse
empirique de notre modèle conceptuel de recherche, nous avons eu recours à une régression de
données en coupe instantanée.
Les résultats de l’étude montrent que l'éclosion des entreprises innovantes en Paytech au Maroc
est liée à l’importance des acteurs des réseaux externes favorisés par les incubateurs et à l'accès
des fondateurs des entreprises innovantes en Paytech aux prêts bancaires.
Abstract:
Morocco has seen a galloping increase in digital wallets since the introduction of this mobile
solution in 2018. However, the period from 2015 to 2020 is marked by a downward trend in the
creation of innovative ICT companies. In the context of this article, and in order to explain this
reality, we will try to answer the following question: What is the relationship between the key
factors of creation of new technological firms and the emergence of innovative Paytech
companies in Morocco?
To answer our central question, we have used scientific realism as an epistemological position,
and the hypothetico-deductive approach as a research approach.
In order to study our research hypotheses, we constructed a sample of 30 individuals working
with actors of the ecosystem of these companies. In order to carry out the empirical analysis of
our conceptual research model, we used cross-sectional data regression.
The results of the study show that the emergence of innovative Paytech companies in Morocco is
linked to the importance of the external network actors facilitated by the incubators and to the
access of the founders of innovative Paytech companies to bank loans.

This pager presents an empirical study scrutinizing competitive strategies adopted by local crosscountry freight enterprises in a province located in the Special Economic Zone in the Northeast region of Thailand. The opening of the 3rd Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge leads to the need for local business to improve their competitive ability in response to increased competitors and business opportunities attracted by this new crosscountry infrastructure. This research is an empirical study conducted in one of the border provinces included in the studied Special Economic Zone named Nakhon Phanom. The research conduct is a multi-site case study with five local freight enterprises observed as the empirical sites. Given the needs of these enterprises to develop enhanced competitive strategies, the study has discovered innovative entrepreneurship elements in the business operation of the studied cases. These elements have significant impacts on the firm's competitive ability. By based on the findings, this paper also theoretically discusses these elements and their effects on three aspects, including inventory strategy, logistic strategy, location strategy. With the study results, this paper can identify the success factors of innovative entrepreneurship in local crosscountry freight enterprises. By using the grounded theory, it also theoretically compares the empirical results with innovative entrepreneurial elements identified in the literature and previous studies. The presentation of this paper will contribute to knowledge in the field of innovative entrepreneurship, focusing on how small and local freight businesses can improve their innovation and business management. This knowledge can help to shed light on how small-sized companies can move towards sustainable development in this era of industry 4.0 economy, where innovation and new knowledge is in the central focus.

Artykuł prezentuje składowe procesu decyzyjnego dotyczącego finansowania
innowacyjnych przedsięwzięć za pomocą funduszy podwyższonego ryzyka
(Venture Capital). Celem opracowania jest ustrukturyzowanie czynników, które
wpływają na podjęcie decyzji o przyjęciu, bądź odrzuceniu tej formy finansowania.
Zastosowano analizę polsko- i obcojęzycznych źródeł literaturowych, metodę dedukcyjną
oraz wielokryterialną analizę jakościowo-ilościową. Opisano istotę, fazy finansowania,
formy i ograniczenia funduszy VC. Opracowano zestaw determinant procesu
decyzyjnego adekwatnych dla poszczególnych faz finansowania przez VC.

This study is an evaluation report prepared as a result of Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Workshop organized by Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Center in December 2019 administrated by Dr. Duygu Hıdıroğlu with Erasmus students and coordinators at the United Nations Strategic Partnership within the scope of “youthatworkeu”. The purpose of the workshop, participants shared knowledge and innovative experiments to discuss what role innovative entrepreneurship played in the development of entrepreneurship and demonstrate results and a conclusion can play to promote growth and employment in Turkey. Innovative entrepreneurship development is defined as the promotion and development of activities and processes that encourage and support productive innovative entrepreneurship in the society. At the workshop, how Turkish Economy and Turkey's new development strategy of innovative entrepreneurship "Growth and Employment" can be supported and what should be the prior strategy of innovative entrepreneurship and what could be its effective implementation and what could be the important anecdotes about innovative entrepreneurship would have been discussed. In the workshop there were twenty participants of each international organization such as development cooperation partners, private enterprises, organizations and universities in Europe. The participants have given an idea about the challenges of development of innovative entrepreneurship and employment growth in Turkey. It is expected them to discuss all questions related to main issues; entrepreneurship, innovative entrepreneurship etc. This report states key issues discussed in the workshop and ends with results and recommendations parts.

The Talent is viewed as a competitive issue. Meanwhile, Knowledge Talent is indeed required for shaping an innovative ecosystem sphere. Malaysia is still fighting the “Knowledge Talent” war due to the rising talent and skill gap between available graduates and industries’ demands.  Profound collaboration between the Government, University and Industry known as Triple Helix (TH) model has been highlighted as the main driver to fill this gap. Providing an exploration of the fundamental conditions and contextual sensitivity that hinder university-industry linkages, this paper suggest the ideal TH model framework to fill the gap and provide a solid basis by considering institutionalism perspective in the Malaysia context. The evolutionary perspective stipulates better understanding of overlay in communication and gap between the Government, University and Industry to reshape the Knowledge Talent pool systems to fill the gap in contributing to the transition of a hybrid TH culture-taking...