A good entrepreneurial climate at universities actually increases the number of team and solo start-ups, although the effects differ statistically significantly according to gender and participation in entrepreneurship courses. This is the central finding of an article recently published in the Journal of Higher Education, whose authors include Christian Hundt and Rolf Sternberg, two economic geographers from our institute. The article is also a good example of fruitful collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, as Heiko Bergmann (St.Gallen) and Martin Obschonka (Amsterdam), an economist and a psychologist, have contributed additional specialist perspectives. Using organisational theory and the literature on the formation of new venture teams as a conceptual basis, the authors test their hypotheses using GUESSS data and a multilevel approach.
Heiko Bergmann, Christian Hundt, Martin Obschonka & Rolf Sternberg (2024): What drives solo and team startups at European universities? The interactive role of entrepreneurial climate, gender, and entrepreneurship course participation, Studies in Higher Education, 49:7, 1269-1289, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2023.2263477
