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Role of foreign direct investment on technology transfer and economic growth in Kenya: a case of the energy sector

Foreign firms in Kenya have played a major role in enhancing economic growth in the agriculture sector, especially in floriculture and horticulture. Over a long period of time, foreign direct investment (FDI) ...

Authors: Hezron M. Osano and Pauline W. Koine

The powerful ideas of making: building beyond the curriculum

In this paper, rather than consider how fabrication technologies and maker activities can be directly matched to existing standards or allow for more efficient content coverage, I position making as a network ...

Authors: Nathan Holbert

Sex differences in entrepreneurs’ business growth intentions: an identity approach

The present empirical study explores the effects of gender role and cultural identity (masculinity and femininity) in mens’ and womens’ business growth intentions in established firms. A questionnaire survey w...

Authors: Leonidas A. Zampetakis, Maria Bakatsaki, Konstantinos Kafetsios and Vassilis S. Moustakis

The influence of social capital on opportunity emergence and exploitation: a comparison of portfolio and serial entrepreneurs

Habitual entrepreneurs are a frequent and important phenomenon in entrepreneurship and for the economy. We lack, however, a systematic understanding of the advantages or disadvantages of multiple business owne...

Authors: Christian Lechner, Florian Kirschenhofer and Michael Dowling

A universal new product development and upgradation framework

When confronted with new product development (NPD), managers generally adopt quick fixes such as benchmarking with competing products and then attempting incremental changes over the competitors’ product featu...

Authors: Kaustubh Dhargalkar, Kasturi Shinde and Yoshita Arora

An entrepreneurial key competencies’ model

The paper has twofold goals. The paper reviews the culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competencies in Palestine. It is characterized by donor-supported and non-governmental-initiated trainings. Th...

Authors: Labib Arafeh

Examining the differences between the motivations of traditional and entrepreneurial scientists

In recent decades, the rise of the entrepreneurial university and the need for commercialization of university knowledge has gained significant attention, thus posing major challenges for higher education inst...

Authors: Sándor Huszár, Szabolcs Prónay and Norbert Buzás

Laboratory experiments in innovation research: a methodological overview and a review of the current literature

Innovation research has developed a broad set of methodological approaches in recent decades. In this paper, we propose laboratory experiments as a fruitful methodological addition to the existing methods in i...

Authors: Julia Brüggemann and Kilian Bizer

Retraction Note: Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process?

Authors: Stefano De Falco

Entrepreneurship in an open national innovation system (ONIS): a proposal for Mexico

In the context of globalization, international processes do affect the national innovation system (NIS), increasing the relationship between its agents and its components within and with external agents.

Authors: Leonel Corona-Treviño

Innovation and service outsourcing: an empirical analysis based on data from Tunisian firms

Recently, outsourcing services has been an important component of the organizational strategy of service firms. However, most research studies mainly focus on analyzing the determining factors of outsourcing a...

Authors: Hanen Sdiri and Mohamed Ayadi

Serial entrepreneurs in the Waterloo ecosystem

The framework for this study is based on the research and literature related to serial entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Our sample is 12 serial entrepreneurs within a single context—the Waterloo R...

Authors: Prescott C. Ensign and Steve Farlow

Students’ entrepreneurial behavior: international and gender differences

Due to a high level of uncertainty, entrepreneurship is generally considered a risky endeavor. This paper explores the factors impacting entrepreneurial behavior in order to identify new educational opportunit...

Authors: Tugrul Daim, Marina Dabic and Elvan Bayraktaroglu

Resources, experience, and perseverance in entrepreneurs’ perceived likelihood of success in an emerging economy

This paper introduces new results obtained from a statistical investigation into a 3071-observation data set collected from a Vietnamese nationwide entrepreneurship survey. From established relationships, such...

Authors: Quan Hoang Vuong, Thu Hang Do and Thu Trang Vuong

Mode 3 knowledge production: systems and systems theory, clusters and networks

With the comprehensive term of “Mode 3,” we want to draw a conceptual link between systems and systems theory and want to demonstrate further how this can be applied to knowledge in the next steps. Systems can...

Authors: Elias G. Carayannis, David F. J. Campbell and Scheherazade S. Rehman

Evolution of strategic interactions from the triple to quad helix innovation models for sustainable development in the era of globalization

The innovative and sustainable economic development of a country depends not only on the presence of a strong government, universities and industries but more so on how they mutually interact for strategic obj...

Authors: Josphert Ngui Kimatu

Technology roadmap for smart electric vehicle-to-grid (V2G) of residential chargers

Smart grid is defined as the overlaying of a unified communications and control system onto the existing power delivery infrastructure to provide the right information and the right entity at the right time. I...

Authors: Tugrul U. Daim, Xiaowen Wang, Kelly Cowan and Tom Shott

Conceptualizing the innovation process towards the ‘active innovation paradigm’—trends and outlook

This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. We categorize the different approaches to understand and model innovation processes into two types. First, t...

Authors: Dirk Meissner and Maxim Kotsemir

Factors influencing access to finance by SMEs in Mozambique: case of SMEs in Maputo central business district

SMEs play an important role in the economic development of Mozambique. Access to finance is important for the growth of SMEs. Thus, the purpose of the study was to establish the factors that influence access t...

Authors: Hezron Mogaka Osano and Hilario Languitone

Cyber-security in smart cities: the case of Dubai

The city of Dubai emerges as a leading partner in not only technology innovation but also designed infrastructure and strategic security. There is a strategy, which will globally add the city and leadership to...

Authors: Marios-Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos

The academic firm: a new design and redesign proposition for entrepreneurship in innovation-driven knowledge economy

The academic firm is a type of firm (firm-based organization or institution) that is being driven by focusing on encouraging, supporting, and advancing knowledge production (research, research and experimental...

Authors: David F. J. Campbell and Elias G. Carayannis

Targeting sustainable competitiveness in Croatia by implementation of “20 Keys” methodology

Throughout the current wave of regulatory reforms, several theoretical models have been proposed that call for the emergence of instruments of self-regulation under some form of state supervision as part of th...

Authors: Marina Dabic, Mario Orac and Tugrul U Daim

Russia’s experience of foresight implementation in global value chain research

The objective of this paper is to analyse the scope for improving empirical and methodological foundation of global value chain (GVC) research and for making relevant political decisions, primarily through app...

Authors: Tatiana A. Meshkova and Evgenii IA. Moiseichev

Business incubation and the network resources of start-ups

The focus in this paper is to study whether business incubation can provide entrepreneurial start-ups with critical network resources. We make a distinction between incubator-provided network resources and sta...

Authors: Inger Beate Pettersen, Jarle Aarstad, Øystein Stavø Høvig and Anita Ellen Tobiassen

Does university entrepreneurship work in Japan?: a comparison of industry-university research funding and technology transfer activities between the UK and Japan

Entrepreneurship in Japanese universities has changed radically over the last 15 years, following the introduction of an equivalent to the Bayh-Dole Act in 1999. However, it is still unclear whether Japanese e...

Authors: Tatsuya Ito, Takashi Kaneta and Sue Sundstrom