Mental health in entrepreneurship

This chapter provides a stock-take on mental health in entrepreneurship, outlining the progress that research has made in considering mental health in the entrepreneurial process. Conceptually, the chapter focuses on the individual entrepreneur as the unit of analysis. Empirically, it describes the streams of research suggesting that mental health is a resource in the entrepreneurial process, together with a stream of research that focuses on mental health conditions as a strength in entrepreneurship. The chapter concludes by highlighting a number of unsolved issues and interesting pathways for future research on entrepreneurial mental health.