Author: Bram Timmermans

UPDATE (March 2009): Awarded the Best Paper Award at the IECER 2009 in Portugal

UPDATE (June 2009): Submitted the paper to the Journal of Business Venturing

The resources an entrepreneur has at its disposal are crucial for the successful exploration and exploitation of an entrepreneurial opportunity.  Within the literature these resources are categorized in three elements, i.e. human capital, financial capital and social capital. The recognition that social capital is one of these resource implies that entrepreneurial activity is more a collective than an individual activity. Continue Reading…