Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions

Abstract

Technological entrepreneurship as a research domain first began in the USA, with the seminal study by Cooper (1971) on the nascent Silicon Valley. Ordinary people and distinguished scholars alike think of this study whenever they come across the term technological entrepreneurship. The same is true for European followers, who t studied, disassembled, applied and then adapted the basic tenets and tools developed in the USA to their realities. Most of the time, they merely realised and tried to find explanations for the impossibility of replicating Silicon Valley in their own backyard, eventually looking for their own ways to achieve similar successes. This made Silicon Valley not only a role model for technology-driven entrepreneurship, but also a synonym for it, so that almost every attempt to spur technological entrepreneurship, whether in a local setting or in a remote part of the world, is often referred to as that area's `Silicon Valley'.