RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VISION DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS

384 RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Thus, future start-ups have to take into consideration the greening of business in order to
boost the value of the company and base the company’s strategy on the quintuple helix model
goals. Besides, Canada, India and Europe, for instance, in the Asian countries this model has
also been used in the economy in order to provide the development sustainably of business
for environment purposes (Sindakis, 2015). Universities are core pillar because they provide
the innovation required by companies in order to become green (Sindakis, 2015). As a result,
the combination of ecology, society, government relations, industry and university are core
aspects that entrepreneurs should take into consideration in order to develop a successful business
model due to the requirements of today’s society and to this end, this paper argues for
a core adoption for a quintuple helix approach when performing responsible entrepreneurship.
Still, there is very little research about relating quintuple helix frameworks/co-creation
towards supporting responsible entrepreneurship.
Methodology
As primary research aims, this paper undertook a survey with (responsible) entrepreneurs
and assessed their awareness in relation to the quintuple helix framework as well as assessed
the necessity and requirements of a working quintuple helix environment for responsible
entrepreneurship. In order to achieve this lead researcher was in charge of conducting a survey
as well as of processing the data for the use of the other co-authors. More specifically,
for preparing the targeted respondents, an information sheet preceded the survey (in order to
present the main questions that will be asked during the survey – as well as the ethical considerations
and guidelines – data storage, data processing, duration of the survey, ability to
quit at any point, acceptance of the data to be stores, acknowledgement that the info will be
used for research purposes only, etc). Additionally, the respondent was asked to tick a consent
form (based on the information sheet) before proceeding to the survey questions. The
primary data (raw) are stored in a secure location within the department’s secured local ethics
office and will be destroyed after 5 years. The lead researcher analysed, transcribed and
anonymized then the raw data (ensuring that no private data is disclosed on the summary of
the survey which was utilized during this research). The lead researcher undertook an ethics
training under the EU & departmental standards. A departmental ethics approval was also
performed on the intended survey questions and procedure (in order to ensure the ethical and
unbiased nature of the content).
In order to create the survey questions, a secondary research was performed towards identifying
valid scientific constructs. The secondary research was based on academic databases
(Scopus, EBSCO, Elsevier, Springer, etc.) as well as on policy and R&D) databases such as
the EU CORDIS portal. No access to any personal data was interfere at this stage. The survey
was created online (via Google Forms) and was disseminated to a probability sample of
75 contacts. A valid response rate of 20 answers has been recorded (26% success rate). The
findings of the surveys as well as the survey structure are presented in the next section.