Strategic Innovation In New Entrepreneurship Development

The dissertation explores strategic innovation in new entrepreneurship development. In particular, it aims to investigate the discovery skills (Dyers et al., 2009) of new entrepreneurs, that enhance new venture creation, and their impact on the entrepreneurial learning (Politis, 2005) within entrepreneurship supportive environments. It looks into the new entrepreneurship development spaces, such as co-working spaces, incubators, accelerators, etc., and into the influence they have on entrepreneurial learning formation. The dissertation contributed to a conceptual and empirical research, developed by Cantone et al. (2016), aimed to explore and measure the contribution of “Innovator’s DNA” model (Dyers et al., 2009) in sustaining and developing entrepreneurial team’s strategic innovation learning within a business accelerator in London (UK).