Technology and International Entrepreneurship

Aim and Scope

Entrepreneurial finance is rapidly evolving. Whether in mature or developing economies, entrepreneurs are combining traditional debt and equity start-up finance (e.g., friends, family, angel investors, venture capitalists, and occasionally banks) with microfinance (Khavul, 2010), crowdfunding (Belleflamme et al., 2015). peer-to-peer lending, and other financial innovations Such new approaches to entrepreneurial finance(Cumming et al., 2019). share a number of common features(Bruton et al., 2010). these innovations may have arisen in one part of the world, but they quickly diffused across the globe. in the present worldwide environment, with the rapid rise of competition and the complexity of the information age, organizations need to be trained in skills that can be advanced with modern science. Activities, businesses, skills, cultures, needs, and more have all been and are being influenced by this technology. The age of information and communication has begun. Blockchain entrepreneurship can create semi-official financial services that bring financial aspirations closer to the people (Larios-Hernández, 2017). Blockchain technology, due to structural changes, it will undergo major changes(Chen, 2018), and in fact, the role of governance and oversight bodies in financial operations will be reduced and agreed. Entrepreneurship undoubtedly has a major role to play in the development of these technologies, although these technologies themselves have influenced entrepreneurship(Doganova and Eyquem-Renault, 2009) and, in other words, have created modern entrepreneurship. One of the important decisions of entrepreneurs in creating a business is choosing and transferring appropriate technology. In this decision, the entrepreneur must employ the right combination of the above components to be successful in starting and developing new business. For a proper technology transfer, a mix of maximizing positive effects and minimizing negative effects should be considered to reduce the technology gap between advanced and developing countries. mainly issues connected to examines the interactions between entrepreneurship and ICT and illustrates the characteristics of entrepreneurship in the information and communication age. There are also suggestions for expanding or making good use of information entrepreneurship.
The main purpose of this special issue is to advance IE research on technology, new investment opportunities, Blockchain technology, motivations, location choices, directions, processes, participants, and Management and Investment Techniques. To complement our theoretical and empirical understanding, this special issue calls for research on institutional theory or institutional economics, Game theory, network theory, motivation theory and the traits approach, the resource-based and knowledge-based view. Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.