ACED Researchers
Arjen van Witteloostuijn
Dendi Ramdani
Johanna Vanderstraeten

Collaborators
Geert Duijsters (University of Tilburg)
Marcus Dejardin (University of Namur)
David Storey (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
Julie Hermans (University of Namur)

Description
"The key aim of this project is to develop an evidence-based model of what may be called ambitious entrepreneurship. An ambitious entrepreneur is defined as someone who identifies and exploits opportunities to create new products, services, processes or organizations with high entrepreneurial intensity, where the latter is reflected in employment creation, innovative activity and/or sales growth. The interest in this type of entrepreneurship is related to the observation that entrepreneurial value generation beyond mere self-sufficiency is critical for a society’s economic growth and progress” (van Witteloostuijn, 2011).This project studies the determinants of SME and Self-Employed Entrepreneurs' Innovation Strategy and Growth Performance