Library Guides: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Guide: Types of Entrepreneurship

Arts Entrepreneurship

Articles
Databases

When searching in article databases, the words you use have a direct impact on the results you retrieve. Try a few different searches using different combinations of search words to vary your results.

Suggested search words/phrases:
"arts entrepreneurship" | "entrepreneurship and music" | "entrepreneurship and woodworking" | "entrepreneurship and performance"

The point is to look for entrepreneurship and the area where you want to specialize.

Examples of articles:

Entrepreneurship database This link opens in a new window
The Entrepreneurship Database provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Reference source especially strong in the arts and humanities; also covers science, technology, and social/behavioral sciences.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Search by NAICS code or keyword to find thousands of U.S. industry research reports. Includes reports for the US, UK, and China.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core is a database of “core publications” across all disciplines. This database has a cited reference search tool that can be used for searching for a specific item from a citation.

Suggested search words/phrases:
"bioscience entrepreneurship" | "entrepreneurship and biosciences" | "synthetic biology and innovation" | "innovation and biosciences

The point is to look for entrepreneurship and the area where you want to specialize.

Examples of articles:

Entrepreneurship database This link opens in a new window
The Entrepreneurship Database provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business.
ASABE Technical Library This link opens in a new window
Technical documents (2001 - present) and journals (1998 - present) published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Includes ASABE standards and conference proceedings.
CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
CAB Abstracts is one of the largest agricultural databases covering international research literature in a wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition. Especially useful to find information for specific countries on these topics.
CAB Abstracts tutorial
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed provides over 22 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including: biomedicine and health, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, genetics, molecular and cell biology.
PubMed tutorial
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Search by NAICS code or keyword to find thousands of U.S. industry research reports. Includes reports for the US, UK, and China.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core is a database of “core publications” across all disciplines. This database has a cited reference search tool that can be used for searching for a specific item from a citation.

Engineering Entrepreneurship

Articles
Databases

Suggested search words/phrases:
"engineering entrepreneurship" | "entrepreneurship skills and engineering" | "engineering and innovation" |

The point is to look for entrepreneurship and the area where you want to specialize.

Examples of articles:

Entrepreneurship database This link opens in a new window
The Entrepreneurship Database provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business.
Compendex This link opens in a new window
Compendex is a comprehensive engineering database covering journal articles, conference proceedings, technical papers, and standards in all engineering disciplines from 1884 to the present.
Compendex tutorial
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of every article ever published by Association for Computing Machinery.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore provides full-text online access to publications of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology). Content includes journal and magazine articles, conference papers, standards, and books on subjects in electrical engineering, electronics, computers and computing.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core is a database of “core publications” across all disciplines. This database has a cited reference search tool that can be used for searching for a specific item from a citation.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Search by NAICS code or keyword to find thousands of U.S. industry research reports. Includes reports for the US, UK, and China.
BCC Research This link opens in a new window
Research reports about industrial/ manufacturing industries, including chemicals, advanced materials, energy, and cell biology. Reports are comprehensive treatments of specific areas in basic and applied sciences.
The Library's subscription only includes reports produced by BCC Research. It does not include content from BCC Research Partners.

Social Entrepreneurship

Examples of articles:

Entrepreneurship database This link opens in a new window
The Entrepreneurship Database provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business.
ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business topics.
ABI/INFORM Global tutorial
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Business Source Elite provides full text for nearly 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting.
Business Source Elite tutorial
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Search the world's leading business & news publications, incl. WSJ & Barron's. Includes 35,000 sources in 60 languages. Some content is unavailable to academic accounts.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.

General Resources

Background on Social Entrepreneurship
Primer on social entrepreneurship from the Skoll Fondation.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship overview (with links) from the Free Management Library.

Academic Social Entrepreneurship Sites

Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)
Located at Duke University, the CASE site includes social entrepreneurship case studies and an extensive collection of social entrepreneurship resources.
Center for Social Innovation (CSI): Stanford University Graduate School of Business
The goal of the Center for Social Innovation is to inspire and educate social innovators, providing knowledge and ideas that strengthen the capacity of current and future leaders to champion social change.
Social Enterprise Initiative
The Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard University.

Professional Associations

Ashoka.org
Ashoka is a global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs provides seminars, workshops and consulting services for social entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world.
Social Enterprise Alliance
SEA convenes a growing network of innovative leaders to promote awareness of social enterprise and provide opportunities to collaborate and network across sectors, geographies and missions.
Social Enterprise Coalition - The Voice of Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise Coalition is a British-based social entrepreneurship site.

Social Entrepreneurship Foundations

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effe
Skoll Foundation: Connecting and Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs
The Skoll Foundation's mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.