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Business and Management
Spain
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
64
Citations
20712
World Ranking
418
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award

Overview

David Urbano is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular emphasis on the subfields of Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Business and International Management.

The main topics covered in their work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Economic Growth and Development, and Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis.

Significant recent publications by David Urbano include:

  • Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda, 2022, Small Business Economics
  • Entrepreneurial university ecosystems and graduates' career patterns: do entrepreneurship education programmes and university business incubators matter?, 2020, Journal of Management Development
  • Building universities' intrapreneurial capabilities in the digital era: The role and impacts of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), 2020, Technovation
  • Managing intrapreneurial capabilities: An overview, 2020, Technovation
  • The Influence of Green Entrepreneurship on Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia: The Role of Formal Institutions, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

David Urbano has co-authored extensively with several researchers, including Sebastián Aparicio, Maribel Guerrero, Rania Labaki, Thomas S. Lyons, and Boca Raton.

Their publishing record also includes a book titled Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurial Innovations, published in 2021 by Springer International Publishing.

The publication venues where David Urbano has frequently contributed include:

  • Entrepreneurship Research Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Small Business Economics
  • Technovation

Best Publications

  • University Students' Attitudes Towards Entrepreneurship: A Two Countries Comparison

    José Ma Veciana;Marinés Aponte;David Urbano

  • The development of an entrepreneurial university

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano

  • Regional variations in entrepreneurial cognitions: Start-up intentions of university students in Spain

    Francisco Liñán;David Urbano;Maribel Guerrero

  • Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity An overview

    Patricia H. Thornton;Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano;David Urbano

  • The impact of desirability and feasibility on entrepreneurial intentions: A structural equation model

    Maribel Guerrero;Josep Rialp;David Urbano

  • Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence

    Sebastian Aparicio;David Urbano;David B Audretsch

  • Economic impact of entrepreneurial universities’ activities: An exploratory study of the United Kingdom

    Maribel Guerrero;James A. Cunningham;David Urbano

  • Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned?

    David Urbano;Sebastian Aparicio;David Audretsch

  • Entrepreneurial universities : emerging models in the new social and economic landscape

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle;Magnus Klofsten

  • The entrepreneurial university as driver for economic growth and social change - key strategic challenges

    Magnus Klofsten;Alain Fayolle;Maribel Guerrero;Sarfraz Mian

  • The Born-Global Phenomenon: A Comparative Case Study Research

    Alex Rialp;Josep Rialp;David Urbano;Yancy Vaillant

  • Entrepreneurial Universities: Socioeconomic Impacts of Academic Entrepreneurship in a European Region

    David Urbano;Maribel Guerrero

  • Institutional dimensions and entrepreneurial activity: an international study

    David Urbano;Claudia Alvarez

  • The institutional approach to entrepreneurship research. Introduction

    José María Veciana;David Urbano

  • Invitación al emprendimiento. Una aproximación a la creación de empresas

    D. Urbano;N. Toledano

  • Entrepreneurial universities: emerging models in the new social and economic landscape

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle;Magnus Klofsten

  • Socio-cultural factors and female entrepreneurship

    Maria Noguera;Claudia Alvarez;David Urbano

  • Entrepreneurial universities in two European regions: A case study comparison

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;James Cunningham;Damien Organ

  • Academic research in innovation: a country analysis

    José M. Merigó;Christian A. Cancino;Freddy Coronado;David Urbano

  • Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness : evidence from European entrepreneurial universities

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: evidence from European entrepreneurial universities

    Maribel Guerrero;David Urbano;Alain Fayolle

  • Entrepreneurship capital types and economic growth: International evidence

    David Urbano;Sebastian Aparicio

  • Culture and innovation: : The moderating effect of cultural values on corporate entrepreneurship

    Andreu Turró;David Urbano;Marta Peris-Ortiz

Frequent Co-Authors

Maribel Guerrero
Maribel Guerrero Arizona State University
David B. Audretsch
David B. Audretsch Indiana University
José Ernesto Amorós
José Ernesto Amorós Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Alain Fayolle
Alain Fayolle IDRAC Business School
Magnus Klofsten
Magnus Klofsten Linköping University
José M. Merigó
José M. Merigó University of Technology Sydney
Francisco Liñán
Francisco Liñán University of Seville
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
João J. Ferreira
João J. Ferreira University of Beira Interior

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