Study goals
Evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and human development, based on comparative analysis between nations.
Relevance / originality
Although there are several studies on entrepreneurship and innovation, models that assess the effect on human development are still rare, so this work aims to contribute to a debate on the existing gap in this relationship.
Methodology / approach
The research used data provided by institutions such as the World Bank, UN, Economic Forum, among others, which, after being tabulated, were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) with estimation by minimum partial squares (PLS-SEM).
Main results
This study confirms this theoretical proposition and previous studies in the sense that entrepreneurship, measured by the entrepreneurial skill, attitude and intention dimensions, positively affects innovation, measured by the innovative capacity and innovativeness, which positively affects the human development index.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
The results obtained demonstrate that the door to human development goes through innovative entrepreneurship, suggesting that it should be privileged by nations that still seek a better quality of life for their population.
Social / management contributions
The contribution of this study to academia and society is in the sense that it can generate future regionalized studies with more information that confirm or reject hypotheses at a lower level of aggregation.