Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Recognition in the Context of Institutional Voids-Model Questionnaire

We experience substantive costs or delays due to procedures for obtaining access to utilities such as electricity and water.

We experience substantive costs or delays due to customs procedures.

We experience substantive costs or delays due to tax assessment and payment procedures.

I have frequent interactions with others to acquire new information.

I always keep an eye out for new business ideas when looking for information.

I read newspapers, magazines, or trade publications regularly to acquire new information.

I browse the Internet every day.

I am an avid information seeker.

I am always actively looking for new information.

I see links between seemingly unrelated pieces of information.

I am good at 'connecting dots'.

I often see connections between previously unconnected domains of information.

I have a gut feeling for potential opportunities.

I cannot distinguish between profitable opportunities and not-so-profitable opportunities.

I have a knack for telling high-value opportunities apart from low-value opportunities.

When facing multiple opportunities, I am able to select the good ones.

I frequently identify ideas that can be converted into new products or services (even though I may not pursue them).

I generally lack ideas that may materialize into profitable enterprises.

I frequently identify opportunities to start-up new businesses (even though I may not pursue them).

While going about day-to-day activities, I see potential new ideas (e.g., on new products, new markets, and new ways of organizing firms all around me).

Seeing potential new opportunities does not come very naturally to me.