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Relationship between Entrepreneurship Innovation, Human Capital and Internationalization Potential of Global Entrepreneurships

Collins C Ngwakwe

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship innovation, human capital capability and internationalization potential of entrepreneurship businesses across global countries. This paper is pertinent given the acclaimed contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth of the host country. The paper contributes a nuance to the literature in two main areas. First, whilst previous researchers in this phenomenon have dwelt on a single country or regional analysis, this paper analyses data from 137 countries of the world covering developed, emerging and developing countries to arrive at a more comprehensive conclusion. Secondly, the paper moderates the main independent variables (innovation) by introducing human capital capability and start-up skill as additional variables. Data for this research were collected from the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI) entrepreneurship index data for 137 countries. The statistical analysis section applied the binary logit regression as the dependent variable was categorized into a binary fashion. Findings from the analysis show that innovation is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurship internationalization with Pvalues of 0.012 for product innovation and 0.004 for process innovation. Human capital capability showed the strongest significant