Networking entrepreneurs

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Priscilla Benedetti, Magdalena Dominguez, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: Can peer interaction foster entrepreneurship in large-scale environments? This paper addresses the question empirically and theoretically. Empirically, we tested the effects of peer interaction on the number and quality of business plans submitted in a Pan-African RCT including 5,000 entrepreneurs. Thetreatment provided the possibility of interaction in different interaction settings (face-to-face or virtual, peers being of the same or diverse nationalities). We find that, while estimated network effects are almost always strong, the treatment effect is not so and displays a non-monotone trade-off between diversity and interaction "bandwidth." We develop a model that sheds light on this behavior by differentiating between constructive and disruptive interaction. It is also qualitatively supported by our experimental evidence

Keywords: Social; Networks; Peer; Effects; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Semantic; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06-06
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