Uncertainty, innovations and legacies of the Covid-19 pandemic

Students’ entrepreneurial intentions in the Covid era: Balancing leadership and innovation aptitudes for sustainable entrepreneurship

Rossella Baratta, Piermatteo Ardolino, Diego Bellini, Serena Cubico, Francesca Simeoni

Entrepreneurship is an essential driver of societal health and wealth (GEM, 2020) because it enables benefits to economies, such as greater competitiveness, innovation to markets, exploitation of new opportunities, creation of new jobs and support to the employment rate (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Zhao et al., 2005; Cubico et al., 2010). Moreover, from a personal standpoint, entrepreneurship is connected to the prospective of a meaningful career, and opportunities of personal and economic development (Fritsch and Müller, 2004; Kuckertz and Wagner, 2010). The emerging stream of research on sustainable entrepreneurship (Dean and McMullen, 2007; Wagner, 2012) suggests that benefits are not limited to an economic dimension, but that entrepreneurship for sustainable development offers potential contribution to environmental problems and social welfare, creating value that produces economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental protection (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). In other words, sustainable entrepreneurs are willing to and capable of balancing economic wealth, environmental preservation and social equity from a triple bottom line perspective (Hooi et al., 2016).

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