Date: 15 July
Time: 3.30 p.m.
Venue: Técnico – Alameda Campus and online via Zoom
More information: Official Website
«The Centre for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico (CEGIST) is pleased to announce the seminar “The Role of Exposure to Innovation in Entrepreneurship”, by Carla Costa (CEGIST), as part of CEGIST’s seminar series.
The seminar will take place on 15 July at 3.30 p.m., in hybrid format:
- in person, at the Alameda Campus, in the Department of Engineering and Management’s Meeting Room;
- online via Zoom.
Scholars have identified multiple drivers of employee entrepreneurship: the desire to exploit one’s ideas and inventions (Anton & Yao 1995; Nikolowa 2014), possession of private information about their value (Chatterjee & Rossi-Hansberg 2012; Kaul et al. 2024; Shane 2000), strategic disagreements with management (Klepper 2007), and labor market frictions (Campbell et al. 2017).
This seminar examines how exposure to innovation as an employee affects both the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur and the performance of the new company they create. It proposes that witnessing the innovation process firsthand on the job equips workers to create innovative startups of their own.
Connecting data from the Community Innovation Survey, the matched Employer-Employee dataset, and the integrated corporate tax dataset from Portugal (2009 to 2024), the study finds that, contrary to expectations, workers of companies introducing new products and services to the market are less likely to become entrepreneurs. Whether those who decide to make the leap create higher-quality ventures remains a question the study sets out to explore.
CEGIST seminars are free to attend and open to the public.»
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