Rosangela Feola

Università degli Studi di Salerno | UNISA · Department of Business Studies and Research DISTRA

Recently, there has been a widespread recognition of Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) as a means to facilitate innovation within firms. In this context, it is important to revisit the concept of innovation, through the lenses of Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0, in order to understand the role of innovation in this context. More specifically, Innovation...

Purpose The paper aims to define a model for rural development, able to stimulate collaborations between actors involved in the agrifood chain and based on digital technologies as enabling factors for such collaborations. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory research, based on a qualitative approach, is conducted, using both constructivist g...

Purpose Humane entrepreneurship (HumEnt) has been theoretically proposed as a new model of entrepreneurship supporting the idea of an enlarged entrepreneurial strategic posture. The aim of paper is to frame humane entrepreneurial orientation’s (HEO) characteristics by showing how firms apply the HumEnt approach, and to offer suggestions to build an...

In the last years, universities have assumed a prominent role in the science and technology-based economic development. The concept of entrepreneurial university, a key concept in the triple helix model developed by Etzkowitz, identifies the evolution of the university role with the addition to the traditional missions of university (education and...

Purpose This paper investigates how global talent management processes are adopted and implemented in a virtual organization to successfully address the challenges of global work arrangements and the sustainable human and social outcomes that can be achieved. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a single, exploratory and critical case study method...

The innovation chain of the pharmaceutical industry is more and more complex. In particular, a new type of players, the start-ups founded by researchers (Academic Start-ups) have proven to be particularly effective in the first steps of exploring new, radically innovative technologies. These small start-ups miss the financial resources and the indu...

The financial market despite being hit by the digital revolution has only recently reached the segment of direct investments on the part of non-professional investors in new ventures. Through equity crowdfunding platforms, in particular, capital demand and supply for startups are easily linked, thus bringing thousands of new investors to the financ...

COVID‐19 has been the most important pandemic that hit the world in the last century. An overwhelming number of initiatives aimed to save lives and protect humanity came out especially at the beginning of the health crisis, following an outside the box approach to address relevant R&D problems. Digital makers, not surprisingly, have been part of th...

What is the relationship between morality and entrepreneurship? Previous research suggests that (a) morality is a set of tools for promoting cooperation (morality-as-cooperation [MAC]), and (b) entrepreneurs succeed in part by fostering cooperation in their business. We argue that MAC is able to explain why moral entrepreneurs are more successful t...

The paper aims to study factors that affect entrepreneurial intention among academicians (Prodan & Drnovsek 2010). We develop a framework in which the classical intention determinants derived from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB, Ajzen, 1991) interact with some elements of the environmental innovation ecosystem as identified in the Triple Helix...

Humane entrepreneurship (HumEnt) is a new model of entrepreneurship in which the attention that firms have traditionally paid to business is integrated with care for the following: firm members, the planet, and society at large. The goal of this article is to address some preliminary issues to develop a measurement scale to validate firm humane ent...

As a new economic model fostering increased resource efficiency, the circular economy has become the subject of academic research, national and supranational policies and attracted the interest of business leaders recently. The primary role of corporations and business model innovation to make significant progress towards a circular economy has bee...

Although the theme of academic spin-off has received increasing consideration in entrepreneurship literature, little attention has been devoted to identifying the factors that drive young researchers to set up ventures based on the results of their research. To identify the determinants of academic entrepreneurial intention (AEI), we tested a model...

Academic debate on the role of new and established firms in the development of new technologies and sectors has a very long track record. In line with Schumpeter, the dominant paradigm is that new entrepreneurial ventures will act as vehicles for introducing new technology and in the long run will replace incumbent firms that have grown thanks to m...

In the last years, crowdfunding is arising as a widespread financing and fundraising tool, allowing to turn a large audience of customers into investors, individuals who can supply financial capital. Thus, crowdfunding represents a novel mechanism of fundraising embedded in the current financial innovation, which operates in order to produce conver...

State of the art/Literature review – Crowdfunding have recently drawn the attention of both scholars and professionals as an outstanding financial tool. Because of its evolutionary nature, from its birth this financial mechanism has experienced a lot of changes, with a common driver: the capability to adapt the crowdfunding model to many different...

Crowdsourcing is influencing innovation processes, linking together, providers and seekers of strategic resources. Knowledge-based resources have been the core of this movement, but financial-based resources are becoming a relevant aspect of Crowdsourcing, thanks to Crowdfunding. The authors focalize attention on the relation between crowdfunding a...

Crowdfunding have recently drawn the attention of both scholars and professionals as an outstanding financial tool. From its birth, because of its evolutionary nature, this financial mechanism has experienced a lot of changes, with a common driver: the capability to adapt the crowdfunding model to many different fields. In this study, the author...

Crowdfunding have recently drawn the attention of both scholars and professionals as an outstanding financial tool. From its birth, because of its evolutionary nature, this financial mechanism has experienced a lot of changes, with a common driver: the capability to adapt the crowdfunding model to many different fields. In this study, the authors f...

Academic spin-offs, i.e. new venture projects backed by one or more researchers, are attracting increasing attention by researchers and policy makers as an effective way to improve technology transfer's rate from Public Research Organizations (PRO) to the business environment. With the aim of supporting technology transfer processes, in the last ye...

The growing impact of climate change and the increase of demand coming out from the new and from old economies require a radical transformation of the electric sector. The required change of paradigm has as a pillar a Grid that become more and more “Intelligent”. A Smart Grid, is “an electricity network that can intelligently integrate the actions...

Business prospects related to the development of green technologies and energy saving systems have attracted the interest of ICT-based firms that have the crucial task of making more and more "intelligent" the system of production, distribution and use of the energy produced. In this process of radical redefinition of the energy business, an import...

The creation of an academic spin-off represents one of the ways to implement the technology transfer process from university to firms. Although in Italy the preference for this form of valorization of scientific research has increased in recent years, the gap compared with the main EU countries remains wide. In our view, the main problem related to...

According to Acs and Audretsch (2005), connect existing stock of knowledge (the past) to new applications (the future) is the essence of innovative entrepreneurship. But what if future applications don’t look like a linear factor growth that can be easily detected, but instead as a chaotic sum of choices of many actors that are more or less in the...

According to Acs and Audretsch (2005), connect existing stock of knowledge (the past) to new applications (the future) is the essence of innovative entrepreneurship. But what if future applications don’t look like a linear factor growth that can be easily detected, but instead as a chaotic sum of choices of many actors that are more or less in the...

This paper reports an investigation of governance issues in Italian academic spin-offs that arise from the need to balance the powers of two categories of partner: academic inventors and external investors (such as established companies and venture capital funds). The relationship between inventors and external investors, jointly pursuing a researc...