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Thinking Entrepreneurially to Identify Research Opportunities

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Entrepreneurship scholars, like all scholars, need to find and exploit research opportunities. In this chapter, I explain a process of identifying research opportunities by exploring the role of using idiosyncratic knowledge, making do with the resources at hand through recombinations, engaging intrinsic and prosocial motivation, building research self-efficacy, and engaging in experimentation. Entrepreneurship scholars need to explore and exploit research opportunities for increasing our understanding of entrepreneurial phenomenon and can manage the uncertainty of this research process through a portfolio approach to creating and managing their pipeline of papers.

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Shepherd, D.A. (2016). Thinking Entrepreneurially to Identify Research Opportunities. In: The Aspiring Entrepreneurship Scholar. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58996-5_2

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