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Do general innovation policy tools fit all? Analysis of the regional impact of the Norwegian Skattefunn scheme

The paper examines the regional effects of a general innovation policy, i.e. a policy tool that does not target specific industries or subnational regions. General policy tools are an important part of the por...

Authors: Arne Isaksen, Roger Henning Normann and Olav R. Spilling

On the origin of innovations—the opportunity vacuum as a conceptual model for the explanation of innovation

The aim of this paper is to transfer the innovation system (IS) approach to the microeconomic level, creating a conceptual framework which helps individual actors to explain, identify, and predict the origin o...

Authors: Patrick Planing

Innovation at country-level: association between economic development and patents

This study analyzes the role of economic indicators in country-level innovation, represented by patents in the technology sector. Innovation indicators include the ratio of patents owned by foreign residents and ...

Authors: Viju Raghupathi and Wullianallur Raghupathi

Regional industrial path development: The role of new entrepreneurial firms

Entrepreneurs play an important role in the evolutionary process of regional industries. As founders of new firms, entrepreneurs increase the supply side of the industrial economy, and by doing so, they challe...

Authors: Jan Ole Rypestøl

Leadership in innovation projects: an illustration of the reflective practitioner and the relation to organizational learning

The purpose of this conceptual article is to demonstrate that Donald Schön’s Reflective Practitioner actually outlines an explicit model of the steps that project leaders in practice apply largely unaware. This r...

Authors: Peter R. A. Oeij, Jeff B. R. Gaspersz, Tinka van Vuuren and Steven Dhondt

Does innovation promote economic growth? Evidence from European countries

The paper examines the long-run relationship between innovation and per capita economic growth in the 19 European countries over the period 1989–2014. This study uses six different indicators of innovation: pa...

Authors: Rana P. Maradana, Rudra P. Pradhan, Saurav Dash, Kunal Gaurav, Manju Jayakumar and Debaleena Chatterjee

Are we ready to adopt mobile money in non-profit sector?

Mobile money has grown rapidly in the past few years. It has contributed to greater financial inclusion for the poor and unbanked, bringing millions of people into a formal financial system. Despite the increa...

Authors: Fakir Md Yunus, Safayet Khan, Tanjilut Tasnuba, Paroma Afsara Husain and Amanda Joy Misiti

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

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

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

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

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

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

Achieving the innovative edge in technology, engineering design, and entrepreneurship

Disruptive and radical innovations can lead to achieving a competitive edge in technology, design engineering, and entrepreneurship. Likewise, entrepreneurship can encourage more innovation. This article highl...

Authors: Robert M. Pech

Defining the Black and Scholes approach: a first systematic literature review

The aim of the paper is to investigate the Black and Scholes model by providing an updated framework of the international literature on the topic, within the field of real option. The purpose of the research i...

Authors: Manlio Del Giudice, Federica Evangelista and Matteo Palmaccio

Social exchange in collaborative innovation: maker or breaker

Collaborations in innovation work between competitors have become a common practice in the information and communication technology sector (ICT), and substantial investments are made in such collaborations. Si...

Authors: Malin M. Malmström and Jeaneth Johansson

‘We are connected, but constrained’: internet inequality and the challenges of millennials in Africa as actors in innovation

One of the biggest news stories in the past decade has been the increasing impact of the internet and information technology on young people, from first-generation mission countries in North America and Wester...

Authors: A. Victor Counted and Joyce O. Arawole

The impact of corporate characteristics on the financial decisions of companies: evidence on funding decisions by Italian SMEs

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a large percentage of the corporate tissue of developed countries, but they do not have adequate attention. In fact, various researchers have focused their studies...

Authors: Matteo Rossi, Rosa Lombardi, Dario Siggia and Nadia Oliva

Co-opetition models for governing professional football

In recent years, models for co-creating value in a business-to-business context have often been examined with the aim of studying the strategies implemented by and among organisations for competitive and co-op...

Authors: Alessandra Lardo, Raffaele Trequattrini, Rosa Lombardi and Giuseppe Russo

On valuing biopharmaceutical product pipelines: an effectuation model and evidence

New creative approaches are needed to manage emerging biotechnology innovations, regulations, and payor environments to enhance product pipeline productivity, valuation, and risk management. Biopharmaceutical ...

Authors: Mark J. Ahn, Anne S. York, Wei Wu, Yulianto Suharto and Tugrul Daim

Absorptive and desorptive capacity of actors within university-industry relations: does technology transfer matter?

Several management studies highlight the importance of collaborative relationships for university-industry knowledge and technology transfer. The present study examines the role of absorptive and desorptive ca...

Authors: Davide Dell’Anno and Manlio del Giudice

Cultural insights of CSI: how do Italian and Iranian firms differ?

Both scholars and practitioners have paid little attention to the social innovation issue at for-profit firm’s level. This is particularly true with reference to the role that culture and cultural diversities ...

Authors: Rossella Canestrino, Angelo Bonfanti and Leila Oliaee

Exploring regulations and scope of the Internet of Things in contemporary companies: a first literature analysis

The Internet of Things is the networked connection of people, processes, data and things, which together are able to achieve more relevant and valuable connections than ever before. In this framework, every as...

Authors: Giuseppe Russo, Bruno Marsigalia, Federica Evangelista, Matteo Palmaccio and Marina Maggioni

Changing the university system of management: a study on the Italian scenario

Over recent years, the Italian University System has been handling a phase of deep changes, which have had significant impact on its mission and on the way it operates. The most important of these changes have...

Authors: Rosa Lombardi, Alessandra Lardo, Simone Manfredi and Fabio Nappo

Challenges facing small-firm managers in growing manufacturing firms

The purpose of this article is to better understand the management challenges facing managers in small growing firms.

Authors: Joakim Tell

Erratum to: Application of partial least square in predicting e-entrepreneurial intention among business students: evidence from Pakistan

Authors: Hira Batool, Haroon UR Rashid Khan, Muhammad Imran Malik and Saddam Hussain

“Happy accidents”: innovation-driven opportunities and perspectives for development in the knowledge economy

From Development as Democracy to Innovation as Development: Current local, regional, and global economic and financial conditions and trends make the need to trigger, catalyze and acceler...

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

Application of partial least square in predicting e-entrepreneurial intention among business students: evidence from Pakistan

Statistics have shown that the market is oversupplied with young and inexperienced graduates as the number of graduates has been increasing over the years. At the same time, the youth’s intention toward intern...

Authors: Hira Batool, Haroon Rasheed, Muhammad Imran Malik and Saddam Hussain

User innovation and entrepreneurship: case studies from rural India

Innovation research has abundant literature on technologically advanced innovations and entrepreneurship. However, literature from a rural innovator and entrepreneur perspective is sparse. Therefore, we explor...

Authors: Vanita Yadav and Preeti Goyal

Factors influencing choice of strategic management modes of small enterprises

Studies indicate that 75% of small enterprises in the world fail during their first 5 years of operation. In Kenya, just about 20% grow to the next size category. Scholars have prescribed formal strategic mana...

Authors: Nyangara Asaka Charles, Patrick B Ojera and Oima David

Contradiction-oriented problem solving for innovations: five opportunities for China’s companies

This paper focuses on the importance of contradictions and solving them for improving the innovative capabilities of engineers and their companies in China. The data are analyzed based on the collections from ...

Authors: Runhua Tan