Digital Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship: The Digital Era's Enabling Effect

Piero Caceres-Diaz, María Belén Usero-Sanchez and Angeles Montoro-Sanchez

30th European Regional ITS Conference, Helsinki 2019 from International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Abstract: Scholars have failed to give infrastructure due importance in entrepreneurship studies. Not too far from now, digital infrastructure has been recognized as the most conducive for entrepreneurial activity. Nevertheless, it has not been properly included in opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (OE) studies, being OE the most propitious to economic growth. Accordingly, our research is the first one to focus on this link. By recognizing the importance of individuals' resources such as human, social, and financial capital for OE; an interaction model is considered. Using logistic regression analysis through a data set of 463,454 individuals from 37 countries (2011-2016), we validate this relationship and find it varies depending on the existing institutional system. Particularly, results suggest that fixed and mobile broadband fulfill distinct roles when relating to OE. Implications of this study may be of interest to policymakers.

Keywords: Opportunity entrepreneurship; Broadband; External enablers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 L26 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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