entrepreneurs

Science to perfect the art: Experimental evidence gaps in entrepreneurship and business support

By Sara Garcia Arteagoitia and Anna Segura on Tuesday, 31 May 2022.

This blog highlights how we have identified a series of topics and questions that policymakers are especially interested in, but where experimental evidence is scarce or nonexistent and the available research is not solid enough to make recommendations about programme design. These open questions encompass exciting and often underexplored research agendas well positioned to both expand the frontier of knowledge and produce policy-relevant research.

Test tubes: Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash

“Confused” or “unimaginative”? How the adoption of a scientific approach improves entrepreneurial decisions

By Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Chiara Spina on Friday, 10 January 2020.

Despite the growing awareness of the different approaches and techniques used to improve decision making, there is little scientific understanding of the best approach. In this IGL funded trial, researchers from Bocconi University present their findings from a randomised controlled trial (RCT) into whether adopting a scientific approach improves entrepreneurial decision making and firm performance.

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