Entrepreneurship in the Eyes of Network Science

Network based research in entrepreneurship endures to grow in coming years [1]. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is not known as traditional data mining technique, but it can be used for mining interested patterns in large data. Entrepreneurs are usually connected with the agents known as brokers (in SNA perspective) in order to advance their strategic position in networked space [2]. The aim of this article is twofold. First, introduce concepts of network science and present a model of dependence centrality with an application of hypothetical small network of entrepreneurs; second, differentiate the model with betweenness centrality and pair dependency with theoretical and practical implications in the area.