Anticipating that innovation nurtures entrepreneurship, we began an extended case study of an innovative start-up in the space industry. We quickly saw that institutions imposed formidable barriers to implementing entrepreneurship from innovation. Curious about how, why and the extent of this situation, we widened our study to other start-ups, CEOs of existing businesses, an incubator, a technology transfer office and key influencers in large space companies and agencies. We found that institutions and policies had, in effect, shrunk the entrepreneurial field, leaving little room for enterprise. Conceptualizing from this, we propose the institutions create an “entrepreneurial space.” Theoretically, we explain how this concept of an entrepreneurial space can be usefully applied in other contexts.

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创业空间和创业自由：航天工业的制度设置、政策和行动

预计创新会培养创业精神，我们开始了对航天工业创新型初创企业的扩展案例研究。我们很快就看到，机构在实施创新创业方面设置了巨大的障碍。出于对这种情况的发生方式、原因和程度的好奇，我们将研究范围扩大到其他初创企业、现有企业的 CEO、孵化器、技术转让办公室以及大型航天公司和机构的关键影响者。我们发现制度和政策实际上缩小了创业领域，为企业留下的空间很小。以此为概念，我们建议机构创造一个“创业空间”。从理论上讲，我们解释了创业空间的概念如何有效地应用于其他环境。