Role of universities in early graduate entrepreneurship: enablers or constrainers of ‘missing’ entrepreneurs?
基于英国毕业生成果调查的大规模微观数据，研究学生创业生态系统如何影响非主流特征毕业生的创业活动，发现其对性别、种族和社会经济背景多元的创业者有重要驱动作用。
We explore how student entrepreneurship ecosystems enable or constrain the entrepreneurial activities of recent university graduates, with a focus on ‘missing’ entrepreneurs with non-mainstream characteristics. We argue that today’s university, with its emphasis on equality, diversity and inclusivity, is an important vehicle for enabling this ‘missing’ entrepreneurship and its economic impacts. Our analysis is based on the quantitative study of large-scale micro-data from the UK Graduate Outcomes survey, and a newly assembled university-level database. Our results indicate that student entrepreneurship ecosystems are critical drivers of entrepreneurship among university graduates with non-conventional entrepreneurial profiles in terms of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background.