Creative-entrepreneurs and new venture performance a study of the creative class at the firm-level

Marcos Segantini and Lori A. Dickes
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Lori A. Dickes: Clemson University

No 124, Documentos de Investigación from Universidad ORT Uruguay. Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales

Abstract: Human capital has been a central topic since the beginning of entrepreneurship as a field of academic research. This paper analyzes the association of the human capital level of entrepreneurial teams on the performance of nascent projects by applying a relatively new theory of human capital. The creative class theory, widely used in the research of entrepreneurship at the regional level, is applied here for its first time at the firm level. This article's findings indicate similar results at the firm level to those found at the regional level. More creative-entrepreneur-owned startups are strongly associated with job creation, and to less extent, with projects' survival. As in regional studies, the results of this research also question the classic measures of human capital focused on entrepreneurs' formal education, but now at the firm level.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; human capital; creative class. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2020-12
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