We meta-analyze the structural relationship between human capital, the ability to generate new venture ideas, and the favorability of opportunity beliefs to address divergent theoretical predictions and inconsistent empirical findings. We test a two-stage process model of entrepreneurial opportunity identification, distinguishing between the ability to generate new venture ideas and the favorability of third and first-person opportunity beliefs. We also distinguish between two categories of human capital: general and specific human capital. Our results suggest that general and specific human capital are positively associated with the ability to generate new venture ideas. Furthermore, only specific human capital matters in influencing the favorability of opportunity beliefs, yet the ability to generate new venture ideas is far more important than human capital for the favorability of opportunity beliefs.

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人力资本、新创业理念和机会信念之间的关系：元分析

我们对人力资本、产生新风险想法的能力以及机会信念的有利性之间的结构关系进行元分析，以解决不同的理论预测和不一致的实证结果。我们测试了创业机会识别的两阶段过程模型，区分了产生新创业想法的能力以及第三人称和第一人称机会信念的偏好。我们还区分了两类人力资本：一般人力资本和特定人力资本。我们的研究结果表明，一般和特定的人力资本与产生新的创业想法的能力呈正相关。此外，只有特定的人力资本才会影响机会信念的好感度，