Impact of Cybersecurity Innovation on Entrepreneurship Development
- Abdullateef Ajibola Adepoju1, Adewale Obafemi Thomas2, Aliyu Mohammed3
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17791491
- ISA Journal of Business, Economics and Management (ISAJBEM)
Entrepreneurial activities in the modern digital economy have been exposed to rising cybersecurity risks with the ability to disrupt business operations, customer confidence, and competitiveness. The strategic role of the cybersecurity innovation of entrepreneurship development is a widely underexplored topic, though it is critical. The paper seeks to analyse how cybersecurity innovation has affected the process of business start-ups particularly how much innovation affects start-up success, trust, compliance, differentiation, and sustainable growth. The paper also explores the role of cybersecurity innovation in global and regional environments with reference to five research objectives and supports of technological innovation and secure software engineering practices, the facilitating role of ICT adoption, competitive leverage of cybersecurity, and the form of a conceptual framework connecting these variables. Using the conceptual research method, the research is based on the secondary materials located in the journals, books, historical materials, conference proceedings, and online databases as the researcher synthesizes theoretical points of view and empirical trends with the help of the thematic analysis. Among the key findings, it has been established that cybersecurity innovation is valuable in developing entrepreneurship by generating trust, resilience in operations, adherence to regulations, and market differentiation. The research suggests incorporation of cybersecurity within the company products and services, implementation of safe technological operations, and policy incentives to startups, yet empirical justification of suggested conceptual framework is required. The article ascertains that the future development plan of long term entrepreneurship is cybersecurity innovation.
