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Introduction and Overview 5

Table 1.1. Terms Employed to Search for Entrepreneurship Papers

ovic 2004). The higher the number of people with these traits in a popula-
tion, the greater the chance of success in entrepreneurial initiatives such as
starting firms and succeeding in business (Maritz and Nieman 2006;
Schlosser and Todorovic 2006; De Clercq, Sapienza, and Crijns 2005; Kyri-
akopoulos, Muelenberg, and Nilsson 2004).
The remaining papers are not easy to classify and range in topics from
corporate entrepreneurship (Grozdanic 2006) to university start-ups
(O’Shea et al. 2005). Low (2001) encountered the same problem in trying
to classify and analyze trends in entrepreneurial research. He described en-
trepreneurship research as a potpourri. While the subject areas covered by
entrepreneurship are broad, it is possible to abstract the scattered findings
into a few generalizations that can help lay the groundwork for practical ap-
plications in the following chapters.