Artificial intelligence and new venture creation: an entrepreneurial learning perspective

The rapid advancements in AI have outpaced academic understanding of its effects on the new venture creation process. While the transformative potential of AI in learning processes in general is widely acknowledged, the mechanisms through which it impacts entrepreneurial learning remain largely underexplored. This study examines how AI influences entrepreneurial learning, focusing on a startup operating in the HR tech sector that extensively used AI during its early development phases. Our study contributes to our understanding of AI as an active entrepreneurial agent capable of both cognition and execution, while also offering a new theoretical framework for AI-enabled entrepreneurial learning.