Le capital social des entrepreneurs scientifiques: essai d’analyse à partir de l’étude de 24 biographies (Social capital of scientific entrepreneurs: an analysis based on 24 biographies)

Papa Waly Diabong ()
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Papa Waly Diabong: labrii, ULCO

No 77, Working Papers from Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation

Abstract: Pour analyser les conditions de la réussite des entrepreneurs, la voie souvent empruntée de l’individualisme méthodologique privilégie des facteurs explicatifs telles l’ambition, l’intelligence, la créativité, la persévérance entre autres. Depuis le début des années 1980 cependant, le concept de capital social pousse à relativiser la version souvent romanesque du Self made man. Il permet de mettre en relief la place de la société dans l’évolution et la configuration du parcours de l’individu. A partir de l’analyse de 24 portraits inédits d’entrepreneurs scientifiques de renom, cette étude entreprend l’appréciation, dans le parcours professionnel des entrepreneurs scientifiques étudiés, du rôle du capital social à travers ses trois composantes que sont le capital connaissances, le capital relations et le capital financier. When entrepreneurs’ success circumstances are analyzed, the reasons inspired by methodological individualism are often personal merit characteristics like ambition, intelligence, creativity, perseverance... However, since the early 1980s, yhe use of the concept of « social capital » has led to relativize the Self made man version which is often romantic. It highlights the place of society in the evolution and the form of the individual path. By analyzing 24 original portraits of famous scientific entrepreneurs, this paper permits to appreciate the role, in the professional path of scientific entrepreneurs studied, of each of the three social capital components which are knowledge capital, relations capital and finacial capital.

Keywords: Capital social; entrepreneur; connaissance; relations; capital financier/social capital; entrepreneur; knowledge; relations; financial capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M00 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2004-06
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Published in Cahiers du Lab.RII, Juint 2004

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