Innovative Entrepreneurship in the Tourism Sector : New Insights on the Role of the Development Context

Authors

  • Isabel Pereira Rodrigues Mahidol University International College

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, innovation, human development, tourism, GEM

Abstract

 Abstract

This paper is an empirical study on the drivers of innovative entrepreneurship for the tourism sector, in particular the role of the development context. Using cross-country data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project and the Human Development Index (HDI) of the United Nations Development Programme, this study finds evidence that innovative entrepreneurship is negatively related to human development. Although more developed societies have more resources available and higher levels of education development, the tourism entrepreneurs have lower probability of being innovative. More developed societies are established tourism destinations, and facing such high demand, it is possible that tourism entrepreneurs have lower incentives to innovate.

Author Biography

Isabel Pereira Rodrigues, Mahidol University International College

Isabel Pereira Rodrigues is a lecturer at the Business Administration Division of Mahidol University International College (MUIC) in Thailand. During the academic year of 2015/16, she was also the Program Director of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) of MUIC at the Sathorn campus.

Prior to being a lecturer at MUIC, Isabel worked for the United Nations system. She was a Statistician at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), and as a policy specialist at the Research Unit of the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 

Isabel received her doctoral degree in Economics from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (IDEA programme, Spain), and her two masters in Economics from Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

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Published

2017-06-30