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That was the pivotal question we asked entrepreneurship researchers in a recent workshop about the future of entrepreneurship (research). Interestingly, it seemed to be a difficult question as many participants realized that their attempts to explain context fell short. Some examples were “silicon valley context,” “social context,” “business context,” and also “age and experience of the entrepreneur” or, more to the theme of this book: “context influences how we see the world” and “context is something internal.”
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Chlosta, S., Welter, F. (2017). Context and Entrepreneurial Cognition. In: Brännback, M., Carsrud, A. (eds) Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45544-0_8
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