Characteristics

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Digital entrepreneurship is a subcategory of entrepreneurship in which some or all of what would be physical in the traditional setting has been digitized through the use of digital media and technologies. It enables the pursuit of new venture opportunities presented by new media and internet technology.

Davidson & Vaast (2010)

Digital entrepreneurship is the process of creating a digital startup as a new business or within an established firm.

McMullen & Dimov (2013)

Digital Entrepreneurship is defined as the practice of seizing digitally-enabled innovative opportunities discovered in everyday life to build new business ventures.

Kelestyn & Henfridsson (2014)

Digital entrepreneurship refers to the creation of new ventures and the transformation of existing businesses by developing new digital technologies or experimenting with a novel usage of the same.

Zhao & Collier (2016)

New products and services carried on the Internet. Services running only in the cloud; using large databases or artificial intelligence.

Giones & Brem (2017)

Embracing new ventures and transformations in pursuit of opportunities by opening up entrepreneurship to the excluded.

Bican & Brem (2020)

The process of entrepreneurial creation of digital value through the use of various socio-technical digital enablers to support the effective acquisition, processing, distribution, and consumption of digital information.

Sahut et al. (2021)