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We may want to question the general usefulness of business tools and teaching for enhancing entrepreneurial performance, but what about the rest of entrepreneurial science – what does it have to offer? Entrepreneurship as a positivistic social science has been advancing our knowledge base, one piece at a time, on how to more successfully develop businesses. How difficult is it to tap this knowledge?
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In actuality, human capital theory enabled Gary Becker to win the Nobel prize.
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McMullan, W.E., Kenworthy, T.P. (2015). The Positivistic Social Science of Entrepreneurship. In: Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance. Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04726-3_4
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