What Do We Know About Nascent and Young Innovative Entrepreneurship in Africa? Insights and Perspectives from Morocco

Ilyas Azzioui () and Serena Sandri ()
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Ilyas Azzioui: National Center for Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST)
Serena Sandri: German Jordanian University

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialisation, and Innovation Policy in Africa, 2021, pp 99-134 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter brings survey-based evidence on the early phases of entrepreneurship or start-up development in Morocco’s entrepreneurial and innovation system. The qualitative research relies on face-to-face semi-structured interviews with more than 40 start-ups sampled from the EMNES project. An originality of the study, and also a main contribution to the literature, resides in the deeper investigation of and distinction between nascent versus young knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurs in a developing country context. In doing so, the study carries out new contextual evidence on an underexplored topic: the early stages or pre-entrepreneurship phases. Key features unveiled cover the motives and driving factors, skills and experience profiles, type of innovation and industry, role of intellectual property and R&D, source of advice and funding as well as the extent of completion of gestation activities and survival/growth perspectives. In doing so, the study underlines the most pressing challenges of nascent and young knowledge intensive innovative entrepreneurship in Morocco, while paving the way for further context-specific data collection, monitoring and policy-relevant analyses in the field of entrepreneurship development.

Keywords: Nascent entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial emergence; Startup; Innovation; Knowledge-intensive; Entrepreneurial behaviour; Business creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58240-1_5

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