Abstract
Research has suggested that sole entrepreneur can be more easily failure than entrepreneurial teams in new venture creation. Most successful new ventures are found to be started by teams. Entrepreneurial leaders and their venture teams are important elements to high potential new ventures. The increasingly interested work focuses on large and medium type enterprises and discusses at individual level, but little work on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups. Entrepreneurial teams have high impacts on success of new ventures, however, it is difficult to maintain the relationships on team members and to release team members’ creativity in order to increase venture performance. Academic and practical researchers have known little to solve the kind of problems because entrepreneurial teams are multi-dimensioned. The research, therefore, attempts to study entrepreneurial leadership and team creativity at the new venture teams of Taiwan’s SMEs, which accounts for about 98 percent of the nation’s GDP and makes contribution to economic prosperity, creates innumerable jobs, and promotes social stability. Several hypotheses, related to examine the relationship of entrepreneurial leadership, team creativity, and new venture performance, are developed