Campus as Frontier: High Growth Student Startups at US Colleges and Universities
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2015
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Miller, David Joshua
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This dissertation explores the complex social phenomena of students at US colleges and universities creating high growth firms and investigates the role, if any, played by the campus during the firm formation process. This dissertation employs mixed methods to better understand student entrepreneurs, their firms and the institutions where opportunity identification and firm formation processes began. Given the gap in the literature surrounding high growth firms created by students, no hypothesis is proposed or tested.
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Public policy, Higher education, Entrepreneurship, Economic growth, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship education, Higher education policy, Student entrepreneurs, Student startups