Jacques Baronet

• Université de Sherbrooke

Les expériences des pays industrialisés dans la création de la richesse par le développement et la diversification de l’appareil productif, interrogent et suscitent un intérêt grandissant auprès des pays en voie de développement et émergents. Ces dernières décennies, plusieurs études, ont réussi à faire le rapprochement entre l’entrepreneuriat et l...

Networks are recognized as a central component of the entrepreneurial process, in particular with regard to opportunity identification and exploitation. In this study, we specifically analyze the role of mentors who are in business as opportunity brokers and enablers among university students with entrepreneurial intentions. Our investigation on 10...

Developing biopharmaceutical therapies is a scientifically complex endeavor, requiring from ten to fifteen years of effort with successive rounds of increasingly greater investment capital in a risk-intensive landscape. With failure rates at 88%, and an all-attempts-averaged investment of over $2B per approved drug, discussions of what leads to suc...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate large Canadian companies’ communication behaviour about SDSR on their websites, the authors’ goal being to analyse the evolution of what they communicate about those issues on their websites, over a period of eight years. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal content analysis of the top 100...

The purpose of this study is to compare the entrepreneurial intentions of university students in North Africa (Algeria) with those of students in Canada and Europe (France and Belgium), and to examine differences with regard to psychological, sociocultural and economic factors influencing these intentions. Analyses on the sample as a whole confirm...

The authors present a model of entrepreneurial competence based on a set of 47 skills and 8 personal or behavioral attributes possessed at different degrees by entrepreneurs from three countries, Canada, France and Algeria. The concept of entrepreneurs’ competencies emerged in the entrepreneurship literature in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Following Gart...

This paper develops and tests a new framework for addressing entrepreneurial skills. We first used a qualitative research methodology and interviewed entrepreneurs from France, Canada, and Algeria in order to figure out the relevant skills. Then we used a quantitative research methodology to validate our findings. Our framework relies on 44 skills...

Les prerequis necessaires a l’exercice de la fonction d’entrepreneur peuvent etre definis, comme c’est le cas pour toute autre fonction, par un referentiel de competences. Aux termes d’une enquete menee en Algerie, au Quebec et en France, les auteurs ont pu faire valider une liste de competences aupres de createurs d’entreprise des trois pays. S’en...

What types of innovations do small firms develop? How do small firmes manage their innovation processes? How does the National Innovation System impact on the commercialisation of innovation? This symposium addresses these questions using selected results from a major international research programme on strategic innovation processes in small firms...

Among the many factors that can influence intrapreneurship or corporate entrepreneurship, the impact of regions and regional innovation systems has never been tested. This paper tries to fill this gap. Based on data from the 2005 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for corporate entrepreneurship and the 2007 report on Quebec regional innovation s...

In this paper, entrepreneurs are presented as creative individuals with a distinct creative personality. Entrepreneurs are sub-divided into small business owners and growth-oriented entrepreneurs and are compared to corporate managers on the creative attributes forming their personality. Thus they are compared on personality characteristics never b...

"NQ-56459." "Thèse présentée à la faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph. D.) en management." Résumé additionnelle en anglais. Thèse (Ph. D.)--Écoles des hautes études commerciales, 2000. Microfiche (Positif).