RT Journal Article
T1 Senior and technology entrepreneurship: An analysis for OECD countries
A1 Fernández López, Sara
A1 Rodeiro-Pazos, David
A1 Zapata Huamaní, Guillermo Andrés
A1 Rodríguez-Gulías, María Jesús
K1 Global entrepreneurship monitor
K1 New technology-based firms
K1 OECD
K1 Senior entrepreneurship
K1 Technology entrepreneurship
AB Aging of the population has created a direct effect on economies and tension on social security systems. Policymakers have been senior entrepreneurship as an option to reduce unemployment and delay the age of retirement. The positive effects, of creating a firm increase when is operating in technology-based sectors. This paper explores the technological and senior entrepreneurship relations, analyzing if age influences technological entrepreneurship and if determining factors for senior and non-senior groups are different. By using a sample of 8637 entrepreneurs in 22 OECD countries based on Global Entrepreneurial Monitor 2018 data, the results firstly show a negative effect of being a senior entrepreneur, understood as an entrepreneur aged 50+ years, on technological entrepreneurship. Secondly, it has been detected that in some way senior entrepreneurship follows a different pattern of the probability of entrepreneurship in technology sectors than the sample of the non-senior entrepreneurs
PB Wiley
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29274
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29274
LA eng
NO Fernández-L opez, S., Rodeiro-Pazos,D., Zapata-Huamaní, G. A., & Rodríguez-Gulías, M. J. (2022).Senior and technology entrepreneurship: An analysis forOECD countries.Strategic Change,31(4), 447–460.https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2514458
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026