Articles

Digital security concerns and threats facing women entrepreneurs

Women represent the main economic force in most developing countries. As economies become more and more information-driven, the issues of women's access to and the use of information and communication technolo...

Authors: Alexandra Michota

Women entrepreneurs: ‘we cannot have change unless we have men in the room’

What is being done to support female entrepreneurship and in particular promote the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can encourage and facilitate it? Is today's business climate ...

Authors: Irene Kamberidou

Young women in science and technology: the importance of choice

Despite significant improvements in the last couple of years, women are still under-represented in science and technology, both in the academic and private sector. This is due to a variety of reasons, mostly r...

Authors: Angeliki Dimitriadi

Family businesses and the gender of entrepreneurship

Economy, business, and entrepreneurship are related to the world of men. Home, nurturing, and the family belong to women's world, so the story goes. On the other hand, family entrepreneurship and its outcome, ...

Authors: Kyriakos Lingas

The contribution of technology in business growth: the case of Greek ladies

The overall image of the use of digital technology by Greek women is not that encouraging. In information communication technology companies in the Greek market, there are only few ladies in high management ma...

Authors: Angelina Michaelidis Vassilakopoulou

Obsessed maniacs and clairvoyant oracles: empirically validated patterns of entrepreneurial behavior

Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnit...

Authors: Elias G Carayannis and McDonald R Stewart

Dystechnia: a model of technology deficiency and implications for entrepreneurial opportunity

Disconnects among system components preempt technology adoption by the diminution or absence of potential user's perceptions, a state of second-order ignorance (ignorance of ignorance). The condition of flawed...

Authors: McDonald R Stewart and Elias G Carayannis

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process?

Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process? Engineers and quality practitioners are often faced with the problem of determining the optimal choice of key...

Authors: Stefano De Falco

Lazzarato's 'political entrepreneur' revisited: the case of Noko Jeans

This article revisits Maurizio Lazzarato's 1994 text on the 'strategies of the political entrepreneur' in the context of Noko Jeans, a recent Sweden-based venture to produce jeans in North Korea, while simulta...

Authors: Karl Palmås

Limited growth opportunities amidst opportunities for growth: an empirical study of the inter-firm linkages of small software firms in India

Small firms are important to all economies. This is especially true with the rise of the information and communication technologies (ICTs), as the technical characteristics of information goods lower entry bar...

Authors: Vigneswara P Ilavarasan and Balaji Parthasarathy

Enhancing science and technology cooperation between the EU and Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia: a critical reflection on the White Paper from a S&T policy perspective

This article reflects the main findings of the ‘White Paper on opportunities and challenges in view of enhancing the EU cooperation with Eastern Europe, Central Asia and South Caucasus in Science, Research and...

Authors: Klaus Schuch, George Bonas and Jörn Sonnenburg

The Quintuple Helix innovation model: global warming as a challenge and driver for innovation

The Triple Helix innovation model focuses on university-industry-government relations. The Quadruple Helix embeds the Triple Helix by adding as a fourth helix the ‘media-based and culture-based public’ and ‘ci...

Authors: Elias G Carayannis, Thorsten D Barth and David FJ Campbell

Editorial preface to the first volume of Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Authors: Elias G Carayannis and David FJ Campbell