2025-02-072025-02-072024-06Domínguez Quintero, A.M., Fernández Serrano, J.,...,Önder, G.Ö. (2024). 14 Cognitive Determinants of Firm Innovativeness. En W. Lamine, S. Jack, A. Fayolle, D.B. Audretsch (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship (pp. 301-326). Berlin: De Gruyter.9783110764109https://hdl.handle.net/11441/168410Innovative firms make a substantial contribution to economic growth,wealth and employment creation. For this reason, it is interesting to understand whatmakes some entrepreneurs start and develop innovative firms. In this chapter, wefocus on the cognitive process of the entrepreneur as a potentially relevant explana-tory element. In particular, we analyse three cognitive variables: perceptions aboutthe institutional environment, about the self, and motivations. The proposed model istested on a sample of 2474 entrepreneurs with different levels of innovativeness oftheir businesses. The sample comes from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor AdultPopulation Survey for Spain in 2020. The results confirm the relevance of cognitivevariables in explaining the innovativeness of the entrepreneurs’firms. The presentstudy contributes to a more thorough understanding of the cognitive mental processof innovative entrepreneurs. It also provides some interesting practical implicationsfor entrepreneurial support centres.application/pdf26 p.engCognitive processEntrepreneurshipInnovationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764222-015