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Determinants of entrepreneurial capability (EC) environment in ASEAN-05 economies - a log-linear stochastic frontier analysis

Determinants of entrepreneurial capability (EC) environment in ASEAN-05 economies - a log-linear... gmail.com; munshi.naser@ums.edu. my The primary driver of this study is to find out key indicators of Entrepreneurial Faculty of Business, Economics & Capability milieu and test these components empirically in the Association with Accountancy, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, South East Asian Nations-05 economies. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, Malaysia it attempts to understand the determinants of Entrepreneurial Capability which Department of Economics, identifies and endeavor commercial opportunities in the Association of South East Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Asian Nations 05 economies, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore Bangladesh and Thailand. Secondly, using the theory and determinants of entrepreneurial Full list of author information is capability in general, this study empirically tests the efficiency imperative coefficients available at the end of the article of variables that have an impact on entrepreneurial perceived capabilities. This research applies recent consistent estimation of log linear transformation stochastic frontier model to find out time-variant changes of variables in the panel sample. Data and variables have collected from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - 2016 and World Competitiveness Yearbook - 2016 during the years 2010–2016. The results suggest that Entrepreneurship as a Good Career Choice and Perceived Opportunities are two significant variables which can improve and have a positive influence on entrepreneurial capability while Fear of failure rate has a negative impact on the efficiency of entrepreneurial capability in the Association of South East Asian Nations-05 countries. Other important variables such as Intellectual Property Rights, University Education and Knowledge Transfer rate have a positive stimulus to the entrepreneurial capability environment in these economies. The findings of this study are important contributions to the entrepreneurship literature and help policymakers to rethink entrepreneurial capability settings of the Association of South East Asian Nations-05 countries to pursue an innovation-driven region in future. Keywords: ASEAN-05, Entrepreneurial capability, Panel study, Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), Fixed effect model, Entrepreneurial environment JEL code: O20, O30, O57 Background A great number of researchers focus on the linkage between the Entrepreneurial Perceived Capability (hereafter EC) study and innovation-driven development from the university-industry-government perspective (Miranda, Chamorro-Mera and Rubio 2017; Cantu-Ortiz, Galeano, Mora-Castro and Fangmeyer 2017; Tofighi, Teymourzadeh and © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 2 of 14 Ghanizadeh 2017). Most of these cases have explored Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) rather than the factor affecting perceived capabilities of entrepreneurship (Siegel and Wright 2015). The EC implies that the potential entrepreneurs are using their skill and knowledge to identify, categorize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities in university-industry-government set up for knowledge-based development (Nazaryeva 2015; Šebjan, Tominc and Boršič 2016;Nyström 2008). This is a crucial issue for both the EC and university-industry-government linkages literature (Afzal, Mansur and Sulong 2017;Anto- nioli, Nicolli, Ramaciotti and Rizzo 2016; Etzkowitz 2014). Moreover, the EC study of a cross-country or regional block point of view remains an under-study area of research (Šebjan et al. 2016). An evident gap exists in research of EC that concentrate on regions and cross-country study. Some limited numbers of countries have been included in past research of this kind (D’este, Mahdi and Neely 2009). Thus, the present study contributes to narrowing this gap by focusing on the five coun- tries in the ASEAN region. These countries are historically quite different in culture, size and income per capita while integrated into the pursuit of a common economic policy to become an innovation-driven region in the future (Scippacercola and D’Ambra 2014). EC in university-industry-government set-up has changed dramatically from the inception of Bayh-Dole Act in the U.S. in 1980 (Nyström 2008). This act has givenstrongemphasisonuniversitytechnology transfer, patenting and licensing based on overall entrepreneurship capabilities in the country. However, little at- tention was paid to the key attributes of EC skill and the start-up dimension (Hallam, Novick, Gilbert, Frankwick and Zanella 2017). Recently, many countries across the world, in particular, ASEAN-05 have emphasized EC environment into their economic development mission (Rashed, Deluyi and Daud 2015). Arafat and Saleem (2017) found that the major determinants of new business start-ups are gender, perceived opportunities, self-efficacy and risk perception in India. It is be- lieved by many current entrepreneurship researchers that theoretical and empir- ical research on EC needs to improve the consistency and relevance of future studies on this topic (Bergmann, Mueller and Schrettle 2014). The use of global entrepreneurship monitor data in this study has helped us to understand the relationship between EC and its determinants. Therefore, the main ob- jective of this current research is firstly, investigating the number of factors emphasized in the literature as inducing the capacity of entrepreneurs to identify and exploit com- mercial opportunities. Secondly, empirically testing the identified factors using recent consistent estimation of fixed-effects, stochastic and linear transformation frontier models to find out significant variables in this framework (Chen, Schmidt and Wang 2014). The practical implication of this research is to help policy makers to understand of the ASEAN region to stimulate an EC environment by considering the important factors in individual countries and regions as a whole to strengthen university-industry-government linkage and creating employment opportunities for the new generation of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial capability (EC) working framework This study follows the entrepreneurship perceived capability-based framework. There are other frameworks such as the resource-based framework and the entrepreneurial Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 3 of 14 intention framework (Giuri, Grimaldi and Villani 2014). Resources and capabilities-based frameworks are two different attributes of the inclosing capability of an entrepreneur (Schumpeter 1942). The resource-based opinion emphasizes on supply and entree to resources whilst the capability-based framework stresses on skill and agency (Audu, Otitolaiye and Ibitoye 2013). There are very few studies that are using a capability-based framework. Many researchers have suggested that it is the capability-based framework that spurs the innovation and global business start-up (Bergmann et al. 2014). The entrepreneurial perceived capability-based framework emphasizes on the capabilities on supply of resources and seek opportunities to formulate start-up using entrepreneur skill and knowledge (Siegel and Wright 2015). The capability-based framework is divided into three capabilities which ease organizational spin-offs; e.g. opening new paths of action, balancing organization and commercial interests, and in- tegrating new resources (Afzal, Mansur and Sulong 2017). Opening new paths of action is the first category in which entrepreneur seeks to explore new business ideas within the entrepreneurship eco-system. For example, patenting and licensing of a new discov- ery from a university may reveal a new path of action toward entrepreneurship. This is mostly depending on the status of the university education system, the knowledge transfer rate between university and industry and finally the strength of a country’s In- tellectual Property Rights (IPR) law (Woo, Jang and Kim 2015). The capability to bal- ance organizational and commercial interests has to do with legitimizing both organizational and commercial activities. In this case, an incubation facility of entrepre- neur strikes this balance and foster spin-offs. Finally, the capability to integrate new re- sources depends upon entrepreneur’s personal networking and entrepreneurship opportunities in the country. Moreover, it is also suggested by researchers that, entre- preneurs will look for the opportunity if they believe entrepreneurship is a good career choice in the country. This thought will certainly push forward the entrepreneurial cap- abilities to capitalize on networks and resources globally (Light and Dana 2013). Thus, in this study, we have taken the aforementioned variables and entrepreneurship capability-based framework into account for empirical analyses. Brief literature review Various studies have been conducted on the aspects of entrepreneurship capabilities. These studies examined the territorial aspects (Wright 2007), compared the entrepre- neurs in different geographical context (Klofsten and Jones-Evans 2000), or even assessed the factor based impacts on entrepreneurship models (Clarysse, Tartari and Salter 2011). Tofighi et al. (2017) has studied the academic entrepreneurial situation in the dy- namic approach in the context of Iran. They used a non - probability version of Cross Impact Analysis (CIA). Remarking some significant notion, the study concluded that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is a flourishing concept but there remained some struc- tural obligations which they proposed should be improved to nurture the entrepreneur- ship environment. Rashed et al. (2015) performed the Structural Equation Model (SEM) in two steps to develop a mathematical model of entrepreneurship. Their study was based on the Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 4 of 14 transformational leadership behavior. They found that transformational leadership quality has an enormous influence on the entrepreneurial practice. The population of that study was all of the stuff from a public university in Iran. On the contrary, using structural equation model, Ahmed, Ali and Ramzan (2014) found that entrepreneurial orientation of individuals increased in the presence of the organizational factors and leader’s entrepreneurial orientation among IT firms. Hallam et al. (2017) conducted a multi-methodological study in the transform- ation project of the University of Texas. That study comprised the awareness sur- vey. The study found the progressive entrepreneurial milieu is the prime to foster the commercialization of university-based technology. Moreover, social entrepre- neurial intention can be explained by emotional intelligence and creativity (Tiwari and Tikoria 2017). The capability-based entrepreneurial framework has been discussed and empirically analyzed in two major ways- one is institution based and another one is individual skill and knowledge-based. Notably, EC analyses have been conducted in the context of the cross-country or regional block setting. For instance, Šebjan et al. (2016) performed a cross-country analysis of entrepreneurship intention in the Danube region. To the best of our knowledge, a macro-level empirical analysis in the capability-based entrepre- neurship framework is yet to perform. There are very few studies have been conducted applying econometric methods, particularly Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) for dis- mantling EC based framework in the regional level. Therefore, this study takes this issue as the main gap of existing literature. Selection of countries The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to promote intergovernmen- tal cooperation and to facilitate economic, educational, military, political and cultural integration amongst the member countries and Asian nations. Subsequently, the mem- bership of the organization has been expanded by the inclusion of Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The major aim of ASEAN is an acceleration of economic growth in the region. In 2015, the combined nominal GDP of the organization was more than US$ 2,432 billion . After the USA, China, Japan, France and Germany, ASEAN would be the sixth largest economy in the world if it were a country . ASEAN-05 (The founder nations of ASEAN) possesses some common attributes. ASEAN-05 is endeavoring to uplift from efficiency to technology-driven economy (Afzal and Lawrey 2014). These attributes are identically accepted from economic to social aspects. The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has been in operation since 1992 for bringing down the intra-regional tariff charges. The governmental education expenditure of the ASEAN-5 is around 20% of their total expenditure except for Philippines (ASEAN Sec- retariat 2014). The primal export of ASEAN-05 is a high-tech product other than Indonesia (Capannelli 2014). In recent times, the majority percentage of exports of these countries are ICs (Integrated Circuits) and computer data storage units (Simoes, Landry, Hidalgo and Teng 2016). This implies the strong technological advancement of ASEAN-05. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is heading towards Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 5 of 14 technology-driven production advantages. The AEC is trying to establish an economic region with a high level of competition, which requires a policy that includes competi- tion policy based on advance innovation system by creating entrepreneurship capability environment development. Based on the ASEAN Economic Blueprint, AEC becomes very necessary to reduce the gap among ASEAN countries in terms of economic growth and this can only be possible by encouraging more entrepreneurial activities in the region. Thus, to address a sustainable economic growth, AEC can promote the concept of entrepreneurship capability-based model using the factors which affect the EC framework in this region. Fig. 1 exhibits the transition of ASEAN-05 economies towards the innovation-driven economy. Data and variable selection This study considers one dependent variable and six independent variables. The dependent variable is the perceived capabilities of the entrepreneur (PerCa). The inde- pendent variables are Fear of Failure rate (Fefra), Entrepreneurship as Good Career Choice (EnGC), Perceived Opportunity (PO), Knowledge Transfer (KT), Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Educational Quality and standard of a university (UE). The study utilizes datasets of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) -2016. These variables are supported by other literatures also. PerCa is the required skills and knowledge to start a business. Venkataraman (1997) argues that an entrepreneur should possess the necessary skills and knowledge in the development of a new ven- ture. According to Shane (2000), the entrepreneurial skill comprises with the techno- logical embodied knowledge. Fear of failure (FefRa) variable has a powerful impact (generally negative) upon the entrepreneurial venture creation and it may refrain the entrepreneurs from exhibiting their potentials (Arenius and Minniti 2005; Politis and Gabrielsson 2009). This study considers the state of entrepreneurship as a good career choice (EnGC) which is supported by several studies as the important explanatory vari- able (Davidsson 1995; Krueger 1993; Autio, Keeley, Klofsten, Parker and Hay 2001). Innovation Driven Economy Efficiency Driven Stages of Economy Economic Force Factor Driven AEC Economy Blueprint Economic Launching 2025 Milestones AFTA Birth of ASEAN 1966-1985 1986-2005 2006-2025 Period Palm oil, Wood, Minerals, Agro based Computer products, Main Export Minerals products Agro based products, Products Automobiles Fig. 1 ASEAN Economic Transition. (Source: ASEAN 2017; ASEAN Secretariat 2014; Simoes et al. 2016; Thangavelu, Ing and Urata 2015) Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 6 of 14 Another independent variable is perceived opportunity (PO). This variable plays up the social and cultural comprehensions and enables to foresee the productive chances of the firm (Druilhe and Garnsey 2004; Penrose 1959). The transformation of knowledge paves the way for innovation and entrepreneurial activities developed by the innovation process (Afzal 2013; Etzkowitz, Webster, Gebhardt and Terra 2000). Therefore, knowledge transfer (KT) is considered as another independent variable in this study. Thomas and Carl (2001) argue property right protects the knowledge and helps to sustain the knowledge-based practice. Thus, this study entitles Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) as an independent variable. The educa- tional quality and standard of a university directly influence the entrepreneurial activ- ities in the country which is represented by (UE) variable in the current study. This activity also helps promoting a competitive economy by building young entrepreneurs in tertiary level (Lockett and Wright 2005; Siegel, Waldman, Atwater and Link 2003). The detail explanation of the variables is included in the Appendix Table 2. Empirical methodology The purposes of this study are to find the determinants of Entrepreneurial Capability which identifies and endeavor commercial opportunities in the Association of South East Asian Nations - 5 economies, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and empirically tests the efficiency and imperative coefficients of variables that have an impact on Entrepreneurial Perceived Capabilities. Non-parametric tests as oppose to parametric counterpart, can only test the efficiency ranking of decision making units, however, Log Linear Stochastic Production Frontier model can find out reason of inefficiency. Thus, this study uses parametric tests, e.g. log linear SFA model. Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) models were initially introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977) and Meeusen and Broeck (1977). SFA models are one of the popu- lar sub-disciplines of econometrics while analyzing efficiency, productivity, the cause of inefficiency and coefficients of interest in the parametric context as oppose to non-parametric models such as DEA, (see Kumbhakar and Lovell (2003) for an intro- duction of SFA models). Pitt and Lee (1981) and Schmidt and Sickles (1984) were the first few researchers who use SFA with random effects and time-invariant inefficiency in fixed effects panel model context. However, these models are not used in this current study. Firstly, as Greene (2005) argued, handling of the effect of the models in Pitt and Lee (1981)and Schmidt and Sickles (1984) neglect the possibility of other non-efficiency related time-variant heterogeneity which could affect the estimations of efficiency yielding biased results. Secondly, the assumptions of time-invariant inefficiencies demonstrate inappropriate for long time series (Kumbhakar 1990; Battese and Coelli (1992). Therefore, a possible linear- and quadratic time trend in efficiency will be included in the model which is used in this research. To analyze our data for fitting results, this study has applied an SFA model, proposed by Bates and Coelli (1992) and moderated by Chen et al. 2014. This model is commonly known as a log transformation frontier model using frontier command Xtfrontier. The transformation method removes the po- tential issues caused by the incidental parameter problem (Wong, Ho and Singh 2007). Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 7 of 14 overall, a stochastic frontier model has two components. One component is assumed to have a strictly nonnegative distribution and whilst the other component has a sym- metric distribution. In the econometrics, the nonnegative element is often stated to as the inefficiency term and the factor in the symmetric distribution is termed idiosyn- cratic error (Belotti and Ilardi 2015; Chen et al. 2014; Constantin and Iyer 2011). Xtfrontier command allows two different parameterizations of the inefficiency term: a time-invariant model and parameterization of time effects (Battese and Coelli 1992). In the time-invariant model, the inefficiency term is presumed to have a truncated-normal distribution. In the Battese and Coelli (1992) parameterization of time effects, the inefficiency term is modeled as a truncated-normal random variable elevated by a specific function of time. In both models, the idiosyncratic error term has a normal distribution. The lone panel-specific effect is the random inefficiency term in this case. In order to capture the factors that affect the entrepreneurial capabilities, we formulate the log-linear time decaying model based on simple SFA panel model idea to identify the inefficiency variation over the years in our sample countries (Keller 2002: Technology Dif- fusion and the World Distribution of Income: The Role of Geography, Language, and Trade, unpublished; Pesaran et al., 2013). The systematic summarization of methodology is as follows: (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 Methodological Steps Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 8 of 14 Result and discussion Table 1 consists of internal and external factors that affect the entrepreneurial per- ceived capabilities environment in ASEAN-05 economies. The dependent variable Entrepreneurial Perceived Capabilities (PerCa) are explained by a set of independent variables in the model. According to GEM database, (PerCa) refers percentage of 18– 64 population who believe that they have the required skills and knowledge to start a business. This may be in academia or in the general population. The independent variables result suggests that all most all the coefficients of the vari- ables are positive except in the case of the Fear of Failure Rate variable (FefRa). This re- veals that the influence of role models and prior entrepreneurial experience and the perception of social support factors and government policy, such as Intellectual Prop- erty Rights (IPR) are not significantly supported by EC in ASEAN-05 economies. By looking at IPR variable in the model, we can draw the above statement more clearly. The IPR variable in the model is positive yet insignificant. The fear of failure variable comes with a negative sign in the model which implies EC performance and fear of fail- ure have an inverse relationship. The more fear of failure in the mind of the entrepre- neur, the less application of their skill and knowledge for seeking new ventures in the economy. This is an important finding for the policymakers of ASEAN-05 to rethink the EC supporting environment. The impact of the Entrepreneurial Opportunities (PO) on output is positive and sig- nificant in the model from Table 1. The results also exhibit that the EC environment af- fecting factors such as Entrepreneurship as a Good Career Choice (EnGC) has a positive and significant impact on the determination of the production frontier. Know- ledge Transfer Rate (KT) and University Education System (UE) are positive and signifi- cant in the model from Table 1. This implies that universities in ASEAN-05 are concentrating on promoting EC capability-based outcomes, such as technology transfer, new patent, commercialization of scientific invention and licensing facilities. This is very vital for entrepreneurial cap- ability development as these are the key external factors that affect immensely the out- come of EC activity and improve efficiency frontier for the nations. If we compare our findings with recent EC pieces of literature on ASEAN-05, we can find evidence to support our empirical results. A study on the relationship between in- dividual researcher’s work environment and their engagement with entrepreneurship activity in Thailand shows that commercialization of academic entrepreneurs’ research outputs plays an important role for social changes (Sooampon and Igel 2014). In that Table 1 Log transformation frontier model results Dependent variable PerCa_log Coef. Std. Err. z P > |z| [95% Conf. Interval] FefRa_log .271308 .0760363 3.57 0.000 .1222805 .4203373 PO_log .4017503 .122001 −3.29 0.001 −.6408679 −.1626328 EnGC_log .9734191 .1095154 8.89 0.000 .7587729 1.188065 KT_log .1073086 .0840422 1.28 0.002 .2720284 .0574111 IPR_log .0101934 .0991004 0.10 0.918 −.1840397 .2044265 UE_log .3676244 .1079669 3.10 0.001 .5792356 .1560131 _cons 3.325477 8.465878 0.39 0.694 −13.26734 19.91829 Source: Author calculation Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 9 of 14 study, the entrepreneurial capability is defined as an experience in transforming scien- tific expertise into a commercial product or service to be sold in the market. However, university-industry-government linkages are not favorable in Thailand, but public uni- versities encouraged entrepreneurial activities (Intarakumnerd and Schiller 2009). In Singapore, the economy is basically dependent on industry and service entrepre- neurship. Singapore universities and government policy have a major contribution to knowledge generation in commercialization through entrepreneurship (Sohn and Kenney 2007). The National University of Singapore is being entrepreneurial and is playing the role of economic development (Wong, Ho and Singh 2007). Only after 3 years of initializing the Entrepreneurial University project, Malaysia’s knowledge output in the total number of publications and patents has increased. Not only publications but citation numbers also have increased (Wong and Goh 2010; Razak and Saad 2007). Indonesia and the Philippines are catching up the frontier slowly but surely. The only problem prevails at the moment is the proper government policy in place to maintain IPR law and regulatory policy to let entrepreneurs to take risks and do not fear to take entrepreneurship as a good career choice frequently in ASEAN-05. Therefore, the re- sults of this current study on ASEAN-05 will certainly help policymakers to set a proper environment of AE capabilities in the individual countries and the region as a whole. Therefore, the main difference of this study with previous studies is that other studies support that the countries are improving knowledge transfer and economic growth through entrepreneurial activities, whereas the present study has found the fac- tors that accelerate entrepreneurial capabilities. The similarity of the present study and previous studies is that these studies have found commercialization of research prod- uct, knowledge transfer as positive and fear of failure rate as a negative catalyst in entrepreneurial capabilities. From the overall results of Table 1, all these seem to sug- gest that the efficiency estimates derived from the application of the log transformation stochastic frontier model are relatively robust to the distributional assumptions that we made. The reason of cross-country efficiency difference If we compare our findings with recent EC pieces of literature, this study finds theoret- ical evidence to support our empirical results, especially the importance of university education standard and knowledge transfer between university-industry to build up skilled entrepreneurs in the country. For example, according to Aghion, Howitt and Mayer-Foulkes (2005) theory, let’s assume that there are two countries namely Malaysia and Indonesia in which both the countries have identical resource endowment, except that skilled entrepreneur is scarcer in Indonesia than in Malaysia, identify as . . I M H < H I M L L Where L and H stand for the amounts of unskilled and skilled entrepreneur employed in technology enhancing sector. ‘I’ and ‘M’ represent the short form of Indonesia and Malaysia respectively. Now, we assume that IPR law is not enforced in the ‘I’ and that there is no trade between ‘I’ and ‘M’. This also implies that intermediate producers in the ‘M’ cannot sell any goods which needs copyright protection to ‘I’. Thus, ‘M’ can only collect copyright rents from domestic innovators. On the other Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 10 of 14 hand, the entrepreneurs in ‘I’ can imitate new technologies invented in ‘M’ at a small cost. This also discourage entrepreneurs of ‘I’ to innovate on their own. At one point, both the countries will end up using the same technologies and thus productivity at one-point reach at steady state in that region (here we assume, in two country case). There will be no incentive to invent for innovators or entrepreneur in both the countries. Therefore, numerically speaking, A H A L Where A is the productivity parameter. Therefore, government policy like IPR law is a crucial incentive for a region to innovate and remain competitive. The absence of such variables not only create the disincentive to the entrepreneurs but also are the rea- son for the cross-country efficiency difference. Therefore, university education stand- ard, knowledge transfer rate and IPR law are significant external factors to enhance entrepreneurial capabilities in a single country or a region as a whole. Conclusion and contribution This study presents an SFA model to estimate the entrepreneurial perceived capabilities af- fecting environmental factors in ASEAN-05. The estimation of the variables that influences theefficiencyofECamong the countries is beneficial to improve the entrepreneurial eco-system. This provides feedback to the policy makers and points out the deficiencies in enhancing EC performances through skill and knowledge development process. By the results of the analysis, this research exhibits that the production or factor af- fecting entrepreneurial perceived capabilities’ inputs such as, perceived opportunities in the country, entrepreneurship as a good career choice, fear of failure, intellectual prop- erty rights, knowledge transfer rate and overall university education system have signifi- cant impact on the determination of the production frontier. Moreover, perceived opportunities in the country for the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship as a good career choice is the most affecting variables to measure the quality of the EC environment as opposed to fear of failure rate in the entrepreneurs’ mindset. The external variables such as the knowledge transfer rate between university-industry and overall university education system in the country are positive in ASEAN-05. It would seem that these two factors are the most important variables to consider for the future perfection of production frontier. The methodology described in this work is appropriate for the evaluation of the efficiency and coefficient determination of EC environment. Given the overall discussion and strategic priority variables of ASEAN-05 region, several policy implications can be pursued. Practically speaking, policy issues which may affect the key determinants in the individual entrepreneurial decision -making process must consider enhancing knowledge transfer rate opportunities, improve standards of university education system while at the same time lowering fear of failure from their mindset. We have not found any similar study based on other regional block, e.g. BRICS, SAARC. We have worked with ASEAN block using macro data from GEM. Therefore, in order to draw prac- tical implication, we can say that this study can be replicated in case of other regional blocks. Moreover, we have found several studies based on entrepreneurial intention but not on entrepreneurial perceived capability. Thus, finding the determinants of entrepreneurial Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 11 of 14 capability are important to accelerate a country as well as region towards innovation driven development. Further, the studies discuss how entrepreneur works in professional and aca- demic world in general, which has never been addressed in the ASEAN before. Past studies have illustrated the differences in entrepreneurial intentions from cross-cultural and cross-country perspective (for example Liñán and Chen 2009; Šebjan et al. 2016) in Taiwan, Danube region, Spain but our study contributes to reinstate the definition of entrepreneurial capabilities and demonstrate how this capability affecting factors shape the overall entrepreneurship process in ASEAN-05 from a stable panel stochastic frontier analysis. This was missing in many entrepreneurship studies like Ramli and Senin (2015), Ismail, Nor and Sidek (2015), binti Hamidon, bin Suhaimie, bin Mat Yunoh and binti Hashim (2017), and Binti Othman and Othman (2017). Limitations and future research Future researchers can take a micro level individualuniversityspecificsurvey onyoung en- trepreneurs and look for socio-cultural factors that shape the EC environment in ASEAN-05. Lack of sufficient time series data and application of non-parametric methods for comparison are the fundamental limitations of this study. However, even with our lim- ited data, the method and the results achieved already provide a useful interpretation of the efficiency frontier for the evaluation of EC performance study. Finally, we can say that entre- preneurship is not only the result of individual’s skill, knowledge and seeking new venture but also, to the same extent, a result of the environment of a university system, knowledge transfer rate, government policy such IPR law in which an entrepreneur lives and works. Endnotes Source: ASEAN Secretariat and IMF World Economic Outlook April, 2016. Appendix Table 2 Description of variables Variable Short Explanation Source Form Perceived capabilities of PerCa Percentage of 18–64 population who believe they have the GEM the entrepreneur required skills and knowledge to start a business Fear of failure Fefra Percentage of 18–64 population perceiving good opportunities GEM to start a business who indicate that fear of failure would prevent them from setting up a business Good career choice EnGC Percentage of 18–64 population who agree with the statement GEM that in their country, most people consider starting a business as a desirable career choice Perceived opportunity PO Sufficient venture opportunities are there in the country GEM Knowledge transfer KT Knowledge transfer is highly developed between companies WCY and universities (Updated: MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Intellectual Property Rights IPR Intellectual property rights are adequately enforced (Updated: WCY MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Educational quality and UE University education meets the needs of a competitive WCY standard of a university economy (Updated: MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 12 of 14 Availability of data and materials Already added as Additional file to this submission. Authors’ contributions Introduction, Theoretical Background, Framework, Functional derivation, Methodology, Results and Discussion sections are done by corresponding author. Conclusion and Contribution, References formatting, editing sections and revisions of referee comments are done by Co-authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Publisher’sNote Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Author details 1 2 Faculty of Business, Economics & Accountancy, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. 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gmail.com; munshi.naser@ums.edu. my The primary driver of this study is to find out key indicators of Entrepreneurial Faculty of Business, Economics & Capability milieu and test these components empirically in the Association with Accountancy, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, South East Asian Nations-05 economies. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, Malaysia it attempts to understand the determinants of Entrepreneurial Capability which Department of Economics, identifies and endeavor commercial opportunities in the Association of South East Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Asian Nations 05 economies, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore Bangladesh and Thailand. Secondly, using the theory and determinants of entrepreneurial Full list of author information is capability in general, this study empirically tests the efficiency imperative coefficients available at the end of the article of variables that have an impact on entrepreneurial perceived capabilities. This research applies recent consistent estimation of log linear transformation stochastic frontier model to find out time-variant changes of variables in the panel sample. Data and variables have collected from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - 2016 and World Competitiveness Yearbook - 2016 during the years 2010–2016. The results suggest that Entrepreneurship as a Good Career Choice and Perceived Opportunities are two significant variables which can improve and have a positive influence on entrepreneurial capability while Fear of failure rate has a negative impact on the efficiency of entrepreneurial capability in the Association of South East Asian Nations-05 countries. Other important variables such as Intellectual Property Rights, University Education and Knowledge Transfer rate have a positive stimulus to the entrepreneurial capability environment in these economies. The findings of this study are important contributions to the entrepreneurship literature and help policymakers to rethink entrepreneurial capability settings of the Association of South East Asian Nations-05 countries to pursue an innovation-driven region in future. Keywords: ASEAN-05, Entrepreneurial capability, Panel study, Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), Fixed effect model, Entrepreneurial environment JEL code: O20, O30, O57 Background A great number of researchers focus on the linkage between the Entrepreneurial Perceived Capability (hereafter EC) study and innovation-driven development from the university-industry-government perspective (Miranda, Chamorro-Mera and Rubio 2017; Cantu-Ortiz, Galeano, Mora-Castro and Fangmeyer 2017; Tofighi, Teymourzadeh and © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 2 of 14 Ghanizadeh 2017). Most of these cases have explored Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) rather than the factor affecting perceived capabilities of entrepreneurship (Siegel and Wright 2015). The EC implies that the potential entrepreneurs are using their skill and knowledge to identify, categorize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities in university-industry-government set up for knowledge-based development (Nazaryeva 2015; Šebjan, Tominc and Boršič 2016;Nyström 2008). This is a crucial issue for both the EC and university-industry-government linkages literature (Afzal, Mansur and Sulong 2017;Anto- nioli, Nicolli, Ramaciotti and Rizzo 2016; Etzkowitz 2014). Moreover, the EC study of a cross-country or regional block point of view remains an under-study area of research (Šebjan et al. 2016). An evident gap exists in research of EC that concentrate on regions and cross-country study. Some limited numbers of countries have been included in past research of this kind (D’este, Mahdi and Neely 2009). Thus, the present study contributes to narrowing this gap by focusing on the five coun- tries in the ASEAN region. These countries are historically quite different in culture, size and income per capita while integrated into the pursuit of a common economic policy to become an innovation-driven region in the future (Scippacercola and D’Ambra 2014). EC in university-industry-government set-up has changed dramatically from the inception of Bayh-Dole Act in the U.S. in 1980 (Nyström 2008). This act has givenstrongemphasisonuniversitytechnology transfer, patenting and licensing based on overall entrepreneurship capabilities in the country. However, little at- tention was paid to the key attributes of EC skill and the start-up dimension (Hallam, Novick, Gilbert, Frankwick and Zanella 2017). Recently, many countries across the world, in particular, ASEAN-05 have emphasized EC environment into their economic development mission (Rashed, Deluyi and Daud 2015). Arafat and Saleem (2017) found that the major determinants of new business start-ups are gender, perceived opportunities, self-efficacy and risk perception in India. It is be- lieved by many current entrepreneurship researchers that theoretical and empir- ical research on EC needs to improve the consistency and relevance of future studies on this topic (Bergmann, Mueller and Schrettle 2014). The use of global entrepreneurship monitor data in this study has helped us to understand the relationship between EC and its determinants. Therefore, the main ob- jective of this current research is firstly, investigating the number of factors emphasized in the literature as inducing the capacity of entrepreneurs to identify and exploit com- mercial opportunities. Secondly, empirically testing the identified factors using recent consistent estimation of fixed-effects, stochastic and linear transformation frontier models to find out significant variables in this framework (Chen, Schmidt and Wang 2014). The practical implication of this research is to help policy makers to understand of the ASEAN region to stimulate an EC environment by considering the important factors in individual countries and regions as a whole to strengthen university-industry-government linkage and creating employment opportunities for the new generation of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial capability (EC) working framework This study follows the entrepreneurship perceived capability-based framework. There are other frameworks such as the resource-based framework and the entrepreneurial Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 3 of 14 intention framework (Giuri, Grimaldi and Villani 2014). Resources and capabilities-based frameworks are two different attributes of the inclosing capability of an entrepreneur (Schumpeter 1942). The resource-based opinion emphasizes on supply and entree to resources whilst the capability-based framework stresses on skill and agency (Audu, Otitolaiye and Ibitoye 2013). There are very few studies that are using a capability-based framework. Many researchers have suggested that it is the capability-based framework that spurs the innovation and global business start-up (Bergmann et al. 2014). The entrepreneurial perceived capability-based framework emphasizes on the capabilities on supply of resources and seek opportunities to formulate start-up using entrepreneur skill and knowledge (Siegel and Wright 2015). The capability-based framework is divided into three capabilities which ease organizational spin-offs; e.g. opening new paths of action, balancing organization and commercial interests, and in- tegrating new resources (Afzal, Mansur and Sulong 2017). Opening new paths of action is the first category in which entrepreneur seeks to explore new business ideas within the entrepreneurship eco-system. For example, patenting and licensing of a new discov- ery from a university may reveal a new path of action toward entrepreneurship. This is mostly depending on the status of the university education system, the knowledge transfer rate between university and industry and finally the strength of a country’s In- tellectual Property Rights (IPR) law (Woo, Jang and Kim 2015). The capability to bal- ance organizational and commercial interests has to do with legitimizing both organizational and commercial activities. In this case, an incubation facility of entrepre- neur strikes this balance and foster spin-offs. Finally, the capability to integrate new re- sources depends upon entrepreneur’s personal networking and entrepreneurship opportunities in the country. Moreover, it is also suggested by researchers that, entre- preneurs will look for the opportunity if they believe entrepreneurship is a good career choice in the country. This thought will certainly push forward the entrepreneurial cap- abilities to capitalize on networks and resources globally (Light and Dana 2013). Thus, in this study, we have taken the aforementioned variables and entrepreneurship capability-based framework into account for empirical analyses. Brief literature review Various studies have been conducted on the aspects of entrepreneurship capabilities. These studies examined the territorial aspects (Wright 2007), compared the entrepre- neurs in different geographical context (Klofsten and Jones-Evans 2000), or even assessed the factor based impacts on entrepreneurship models (Clarysse, Tartari and Salter 2011). Tofighi et al. (2017) has studied the academic entrepreneurial situation in the dy- namic approach in the context of Iran. They used a non - probability version of Cross Impact Analysis (CIA). Remarking some significant notion, the study concluded that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is a flourishing concept but there remained some struc- tural obligations which they proposed should be improved to nurture the entrepreneur- ship environment. Rashed et al. (2015) performed the Structural Equation Model (SEM) in two steps to develop a mathematical model of entrepreneurship. Their study was based on the Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 4 of 14 transformational leadership behavior. They found that transformational leadership quality has an enormous influence on the entrepreneurial practice. The population of that study was all of the stuff from a public university in Iran. On the contrary, using structural equation model, Ahmed, Ali and Ramzan (2014) found that entrepreneurial orientation of individuals increased in the presence of the organizational factors and leader’s entrepreneurial orientation among IT firms. Hallam et al. (2017) conducted a multi-methodological study in the transform- ation project of the University of Texas. That study comprised the awareness sur- vey. The study found the progressive entrepreneurial milieu is the prime to foster the commercialization of university-based technology. Moreover, social entrepre- neurial intention can be explained by emotional intelligence and creativity (Tiwari and Tikoria 2017). The capability-based entrepreneurial framework has been discussed and empirically analyzed in two major ways- one is institution based and another one is individual skill and knowledge-based. Notably, EC analyses have been conducted in the context of the cross-country or regional block setting. For instance, Šebjan et al. (2016) performed a cross-country analysis of entrepreneurship intention in the Danube region. To the best of our knowledge, a macro-level empirical analysis in the capability-based entrepre- neurship framework is yet to perform. There are very few studies have been conducted applying econometric methods, particularly Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) for dis- mantling EC based framework in the regional level. Therefore, this study takes this issue as the main gap of existing literature. Selection of countries The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand to promote intergovernmen- tal cooperation and to facilitate economic, educational, military, political and cultural integration amongst the member countries and Asian nations. Subsequently, the mem- bership of the organization has been expanded by the inclusion of Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The major aim of ASEAN is an acceleration of economic growth in the region. In 2015, the combined nominal GDP of the organization was more than US$ 2,432 billion . After the USA, China, Japan, France and Germany, ASEAN would be the sixth largest economy in the world if it were a country . ASEAN-05 (The founder nations of ASEAN) possesses some common attributes. ASEAN-05 is endeavoring to uplift from efficiency to technology-driven economy (Afzal and Lawrey 2014). These attributes are identically accepted from economic to social aspects. The ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has been in operation since 1992 for bringing down the intra-regional tariff charges. The governmental education expenditure of the ASEAN-5 is around 20% of their total expenditure except for Philippines (ASEAN Sec- retariat 2014). The primal export of ASEAN-05 is a high-tech product other than Indonesia (Capannelli 2014). In recent times, the majority percentage of exports of these countries are ICs (Integrated Circuits) and computer data storage units (Simoes, Landry, Hidalgo and Teng 2016). This implies the strong technological advancement of ASEAN-05. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is heading towards Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 5 of 14 technology-driven production advantages. The AEC is trying to establish an economic region with a high level of competition, which requires a policy that includes competi- tion policy based on advance innovation system by creating entrepreneurship capability environment development. Based on the ASEAN Economic Blueprint, AEC becomes very necessary to reduce the gap among ASEAN countries in terms of economic growth and this can only be possible by encouraging more entrepreneurial activities in the region. Thus, to address a sustainable economic growth, AEC can promote the concept of entrepreneurship capability-based model using the factors which affect the EC framework in this region. Fig. 1 exhibits the transition of ASEAN-05 economies towards the innovation-driven economy. Data and variable selection This study considers one dependent variable and six independent variables. The dependent variable is the perceived capabilities of the entrepreneur (PerCa). The inde- pendent variables are Fear of Failure rate (Fefra), Entrepreneurship as Good Career Choice (EnGC), Perceived Opportunity (PO), Knowledge Transfer (KT), Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Educational Quality and standard of a university (UE). The study utilizes datasets of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) -2016. These variables are supported by other literatures also. PerCa is the required skills and knowledge to start a business. Venkataraman (1997) argues that an entrepreneur should possess the necessary skills and knowledge in the development of a new ven- ture. According to Shane (2000), the entrepreneurial skill comprises with the techno- logical embodied knowledge. Fear of failure (FefRa) variable has a powerful impact (generally negative) upon the entrepreneurial venture creation and it may refrain the entrepreneurs from exhibiting their potentials (Arenius and Minniti 2005; Politis and Gabrielsson 2009). This study considers the state of entrepreneurship as a good career choice (EnGC) which is supported by several studies as the important explanatory vari- able (Davidsson 1995; Krueger 1993; Autio, Keeley, Klofsten, Parker and Hay 2001). Innovation Driven Economy Efficiency Driven Stages of Economy Economic Force Factor Driven AEC Economy Blueprint Economic Launching 2025 Milestones AFTA Birth of ASEAN 1966-1985 1986-2005 2006-2025 Period Palm oil, Wood, Minerals, Agro based Computer products, Main Export Minerals products Agro based products, Products Automobiles Fig. 1 ASEAN Economic Transition. (Source: ASEAN 2017; ASEAN Secretariat 2014; Simoes et al. 2016; Thangavelu, Ing and Urata 2015) Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 6 of 14 Another independent variable is perceived opportunity (PO). This variable plays up the social and cultural comprehensions and enables to foresee the productive chances of the firm (Druilhe and Garnsey 2004; Penrose 1959). The transformation of knowledge paves the way for innovation and entrepreneurial activities developed by the innovation process (Afzal 2013; Etzkowitz, Webster, Gebhardt and Terra 2000). Therefore, knowledge transfer (KT) is considered as another independent variable in this study. Thomas and Carl (2001) argue property right protects the knowledge and helps to sustain the knowledge-based practice. Thus, this study entitles Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) as an independent variable. The educa- tional quality and standard of a university directly influence the entrepreneurial activ- ities in the country which is represented by (UE) variable in the current study. This activity also helps promoting a competitive economy by building young entrepreneurs in tertiary level (Lockett and Wright 2005; Siegel, Waldman, Atwater and Link 2003). The detail explanation of the variables is included in the Appendix Table 2. Empirical methodology The purposes of this study are to find the determinants of Entrepreneurial Capability which identifies and endeavor commercial opportunities in the Association of South East Asian Nations - 5 economies, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand and empirically tests the efficiency and imperative coefficients of variables that have an impact on Entrepreneurial Perceived Capabilities. Non-parametric tests as oppose to parametric counterpart, can only test the efficiency ranking of decision making units, however, Log Linear Stochastic Production Frontier model can find out reason of inefficiency. Thus, this study uses parametric tests, e.g. log linear SFA model. Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) models were initially introduced by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977) and Meeusen and Broeck (1977). SFA models are one of the popu- lar sub-disciplines of econometrics while analyzing efficiency, productivity, the cause of inefficiency and coefficients of interest in the parametric context as oppose to non-parametric models such as DEA, (see Kumbhakar and Lovell (2003) for an intro- duction of SFA models). Pitt and Lee (1981) and Schmidt and Sickles (1984) were the first few researchers who use SFA with random effects and time-invariant inefficiency in fixed effects panel model context. However, these models are not used in this current study. Firstly, as Greene (2005) argued, handling of the effect of the models in Pitt and Lee (1981)and Schmidt and Sickles (1984) neglect the possibility of other non-efficiency related time-variant heterogeneity which could affect the estimations of efficiency yielding biased results. Secondly, the assumptions of time-invariant inefficiencies demonstrate inappropriate for long time series (Kumbhakar 1990; Battese and Coelli (1992). Therefore, a possible linear- and quadratic time trend in efficiency will be included in the model which is used in this research. To analyze our data for fitting results, this study has applied an SFA model, proposed by Bates and Coelli (1992) and moderated by Chen et al. 2014. This model is commonly known as a log transformation frontier model using frontier command Xtfrontier. The transformation method removes the po- tential issues caused by the incidental parameter problem (Wong, Ho and Singh 2007). Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 7 of 14 overall, a stochastic frontier model has two components. One component is assumed to have a strictly nonnegative distribution and whilst the other component has a sym- metric distribution. In the econometrics, the nonnegative element is often stated to as the inefficiency term and the factor in the symmetric distribution is termed idiosyn- cratic error (Belotti and Ilardi 2015; Chen et al. 2014; Constantin and Iyer 2011). Xtfrontier command allows two different parameterizations of the inefficiency term: a time-invariant model and parameterization of time effects (Battese and Coelli 1992). In the time-invariant model, the inefficiency term is presumed to have a truncated-normal distribution. In the Battese and Coelli (1992) parameterization of time effects, the inefficiency term is modeled as a truncated-normal random variable elevated by a specific function of time. In both models, the idiosyncratic error term has a normal distribution. The lone panel-specific effect is the random inefficiency term in this case. In order to capture the factors that affect the entrepreneurial capabilities, we formulate the log-linear time decaying model based on simple SFA panel model idea to identify the inefficiency variation over the years in our sample countries (Keller 2002: Technology Dif- fusion and the World Distribution of Income: The Role of Geography, Language, and Trade, unpublished; Pesaran et al., 2013). The systematic summarization of methodology is as follows: (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 Methodological Steps Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 8 of 14 Result and discussion Table 1 consists of internal and external factors that affect the entrepreneurial per- ceived capabilities environment in ASEAN-05 economies. The dependent variable Entrepreneurial Perceived Capabilities (PerCa) are explained by a set of independent variables in the model. According to GEM database, (PerCa) refers percentage of 18– 64 population who believe that they have the required skills and knowledge to start a business. This may be in academia or in the general population. The independent variables result suggests that all most all the coefficients of the vari- ables are positive except in the case of the Fear of Failure Rate variable (FefRa). This re- veals that the influence of role models and prior entrepreneurial experience and the perception of social support factors and government policy, such as Intellectual Prop- erty Rights (IPR) are not significantly supported by EC in ASEAN-05 economies. By looking at IPR variable in the model, we can draw the above statement more clearly. The IPR variable in the model is positive yet insignificant. The fear of failure variable comes with a negative sign in the model which implies EC performance and fear of fail- ure have an inverse relationship. The more fear of failure in the mind of the entrepre- neur, the less application of their skill and knowledge for seeking new ventures in the economy. This is an important finding for the policymakers of ASEAN-05 to rethink the EC supporting environment. The impact of the Entrepreneurial Opportunities (PO) on output is positive and sig- nificant in the model from Table 1. The results also exhibit that the EC environment af- fecting factors such as Entrepreneurship as a Good Career Choice (EnGC) has a positive and significant impact on the determination of the production frontier. Know- ledge Transfer Rate (KT) and University Education System (UE) are positive and signifi- cant in the model from Table 1. This implies that universities in ASEAN-05 are concentrating on promoting EC capability-based outcomes, such as technology transfer, new patent, commercialization of scientific invention and licensing facilities. This is very vital for entrepreneurial cap- ability development as these are the key external factors that affect immensely the out- come of EC activity and improve efficiency frontier for the nations. If we compare our findings with recent EC pieces of literature on ASEAN-05, we can find evidence to support our empirical results. A study on the relationship between in- dividual researcher’s work environment and their engagement with entrepreneurship activity in Thailand shows that commercialization of academic entrepreneurs’ research outputs plays an important role for social changes (Sooampon and Igel 2014). In that Table 1 Log transformation frontier model results Dependent variable PerCa_log Coef. Std. Err. z P > |z| [95% Conf. Interval] FefRa_log .271308 .0760363 3.57 0.000 .1222805 .4203373 PO_log .4017503 .122001 −3.29 0.001 −.6408679 −.1626328 EnGC_log .9734191 .1095154 8.89 0.000 .7587729 1.188065 KT_log .1073086 .0840422 1.28 0.002 .2720284 .0574111 IPR_log .0101934 .0991004 0.10 0.918 −.1840397 .2044265 UE_log .3676244 .1079669 3.10 0.001 .5792356 .1560131 _cons 3.325477 8.465878 0.39 0.694 −13.26734 19.91829 Source: Author calculation Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 9 of 14 study, the entrepreneurial capability is defined as an experience in transforming scien- tific expertise into a commercial product or service to be sold in the market. However, university-industry-government linkages are not favorable in Thailand, but public uni- versities encouraged entrepreneurial activities (Intarakumnerd and Schiller 2009). In Singapore, the economy is basically dependent on industry and service entrepre- neurship. Singapore universities and government policy have a major contribution to knowledge generation in commercialization through entrepreneurship (Sohn and Kenney 2007). The National University of Singapore is being entrepreneurial and is playing the role of economic development (Wong, Ho and Singh 2007). Only after 3 years of initializing the Entrepreneurial University project, Malaysia’s knowledge output in the total number of publications and patents has increased. Not only publications but citation numbers also have increased (Wong and Goh 2010; Razak and Saad 2007). Indonesia and the Philippines are catching up the frontier slowly but surely. The only problem prevails at the moment is the proper government policy in place to maintain IPR law and regulatory policy to let entrepreneurs to take risks and do not fear to take entrepreneurship as a good career choice frequently in ASEAN-05. Therefore, the re- sults of this current study on ASEAN-05 will certainly help policymakers to set a proper environment of AE capabilities in the individual countries and the region as a whole. Therefore, the main difference of this study with previous studies is that other studies support that the countries are improving knowledge transfer and economic growth through entrepreneurial activities, whereas the present study has found the fac- tors that accelerate entrepreneurial capabilities. The similarity of the present study and previous studies is that these studies have found commercialization of research prod- uct, knowledge transfer as positive and fear of failure rate as a negative catalyst in entrepreneurial capabilities. From the overall results of Table 1, all these seem to sug- gest that the efficiency estimates derived from the application of the log transformation stochastic frontier model are relatively robust to the distributional assumptions that we made. The reason of cross-country efficiency difference If we compare our findings with recent EC pieces of literature, this study finds theoret- ical evidence to support our empirical results, especially the importance of university education standard and knowledge transfer between university-industry to build up skilled entrepreneurs in the country. For example, according to Aghion, Howitt and Mayer-Foulkes (2005) theory, let’s assume that there are two countries namely Malaysia and Indonesia in which both the countries have identical resource endowment, except that skilled entrepreneur is scarcer in Indonesia than in Malaysia, identify as . . I M H < H I M L L Where L and H stand for the amounts of unskilled and skilled entrepreneur employed in technology enhancing sector. ‘I’ and ‘M’ represent the short form of Indonesia and Malaysia respectively. Now, we assume that IPR law is not enforced in the ‘I’ and that there is no trade between ‘I’ and ‘M’. This also implies that intermediate producers in the ‘M’ cannot sell any goods which needs copyright protection to ‘I’. Thus, ‘M’ can only collect copyright rents from domestic innovators. On the other Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 10 of 14 hand, the entrepreneurs in ‘I’ can imitate new technologies invented in ‘M’ at a small cost. This also discourage entrepreneurs of ‘I’ to innovate on their own. At one point, both the countries will end up using the same technologies and thus productivity at one-point reach at steady state in that region (here we assume, in two country case). There will be no incentive to invent for innovators or entrepreneur in both the countries. Therefore, numerically speaking, A H A L Where A is the productivity parameter. Therefore, government policy like IPR law is a crucial incentive for a region to innovate and remain competitive. The absence of such variables not only create the disincentive to the entrepreneurs but also are the rea- son for the cross-country efficiency difference. Therefore, university education stand- ard, knowledge transfer rate and IPR law are significant external factors to enhance entrepreneurial capabilities in a single country or a region as a whole. Conclusion and contribution This study presents an SFA model to estimate the entrepreneurial perceived capabilities af- fecting environmental factors in ASEAN-05. The estimation of the variables that influences theefficiencyofECamong the countries is beneficial to improve the entrepreneurial eco-system. This provides feedback to the policy makers and points out the deficiencies in enhancing EC performances through skill and knowledge development process. By the results of the analysis, this research exhibits that the production or factor af- fecting entrepreneurial perceived capabilities’ inputs such as, perceived opportunities in the country, entrepreneurship as a good career choice, fear of failure, intellectual prop- erty rights, knowledge transfer rate and overall university education system have signifi- cant impact on the determination of the production frontier. Moreover, perceived opportunities in the country for the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship as a good career choice is the most affecting variables to measure the quality of the EC environment as opposed to fear of failure rate in the entrepreneurs’ mindset. The external variables such as the knowledge transfer rate between university-industry and overall university education system in the country are positive in ASEAN-05. It would seem that these two factors are the most important variables to consider for the future perfection of production frontier. The methodology described in this work is appropriate for the evaluation of the efficiency and coefficient determination of EC environment. Given the overall discussion and strategic priority variables of ASEAN-05 region, several policy implications can be pursued. Practically speaking, policy issues which may affect the key determinants in the individual entrepreneurial decision -making process must consider enhancing knowledge transfer rate opportunities, improve standards of university education system while at the same time lowering fear of failure from their mindset. We have not found any similar study based on other regional block, e.g. BRICS, SAARC. We have worked with ASEAN block using macro data from GEM. Therefore, in order to draw prac- tical implication, we can say that this study can be replicated in case of other regional blocks. Moreover, we have found several studies based on entrepreneurial intention but not on entrepreneurial perceived capability. Thus, finding the determinants of entrepreneurial Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 11 of 14 capability are important to accelerate a country as well as region towards innovation driven development. Further, the studies discuss how entrepreneur works in professional and aca- demic world in general, which has never been addressed in the ASEAN before. Past studies have illustrated the differences in entrepreneurial intentions from cross-cultural and cross-country perspective (for example Liñán and Chen 2009; Šebjan et al. 2016) in Taiwan, Danube region, Spain but our study contributes to reinstate the definition of entrepreneurial capabilities and demonstrate how this capability affecting factors shape the overall entrepreneurship process in ASEAN-05 from a stable panel stochastic frontier analysis. This was missing in many entrepreneurship studies like Ramli and Senin (2015), Ismail, Nor and Sidek (2015), binti Hamidon, bin Suhaimie, bin Mat Yunoh and binti Hashim (2017), and Binti Othman and Othman (2017). Limitations and future research Future researchers can take a micro level individualuniversityspecificsurvey onyoung en- trepreneurs and look for socio-cultural factors that shape the EC environment in ASEAN-05. Lack of sufficient time series data and application of non-parametric methods for comparison are the fundamental limitations of this study. However, even with our lim- ited data, the method and the results achieved already provide a useful interpretation of the efficiency frontier for the evaluation of EC performance study. Finally, we can say that entre- preneurship is not only the result of individual’s skill, knowledge and seeking new venture but also, to the same extent, a result of the environment of a university system, knowledge transfer rate, government policy such IPR law in which an entrepreneur lives and works. Endnotes Source: ASEAN Secretariat and IMF World Economic Outlook April, 2016. Appendix Table 2 Description of variables Variable Short Explanation Source Form Perceived capabilities of PerCa Percentage of 18–64 population who believe they have the GEM the entrepreneur required skills and knowledge to start a business Fear of failure Fefra Percentage of 18–64 population perceiving good opportunities GEM to start a business who indicate that fear of failure would prevent them from setting up a business Good career choice EnGC Percentage of 18–64 population who agree with the statement GEM that in their country, most people consider starting a business as a desirable career choice Perceived opportunity PO Sufficient venture opportunities are there in the country GEM Knowledge transfer KT Knowledge transfer is highly developed between companies WCY and universities (Updated: MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Intellectual Property Rights IPR Intellectual property rights are adequately enforced (Updated: WCY MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Educational quality and UE University education meets the needs of a competitive WCY standard of a university economy (Updated: MAY 2016, IMD WCY executive survey based on an index from 0 to 10) Afzal et al. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2018) 8:14 Page 12 of 14 Availability of data and materials Already added as Additional file to this submission. Authors’ contributions Introduction, Theoretical Background, Framework, Functional derivation, Methodology, Results and Discussion sections are done by corresponding author. Conclusion and Contribution, References formatting, editing sections and revisions of referee comments are done by Co-authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Publisher’sNote Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Author details 1 2 Faculty of Business, Economics & Accountancy, University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Department of Economics, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. 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