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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

Ethnic minority entrepreneurship: an examination of Pakistani entrepreneurs in the UK

This paper discusses the findings from a pilot study which forms part of a larger, on-going study considering the nature of family dynamics in ethnic minority-owned family businesses based in the UK. The paper...

Authors: Lorna A Collins and Rebecca Fakoussa

A comparative study of the Indonesia and Chinese educative systems concerning the dominant incentives to entrepreneurial spirit (desire for a new venturing) of business school students

This study aims to analyze the influence of direct and indirect effect of the theory of planned behavior on entrepreneurial intention by using entrepreneurial education as an intervening variable. The study in...

Authors: Yang Kaijun and Puput Ichwatus Sholihah

Enterprise 2.0: a boon or bane for entrepreneurial and innovative expenditures?

Social media’s unabated and unprecedented adoption and growth among masses across the globe and fast emergence of innovative, open, cost effective, at times free of cost, and flexible Social media platforms ha...

Authors: Punita Duhan and Anurag Singh

Medium term effects of culture, transactions and institutions on opportunity entrepreneurship

Cultural evolution is a long-term endogenous process which is revealed in society’s cultural traits and it is embodied in institutional characteristics (property rights protection, rule of law, etc.) and trans...

Authors: Panagiotis E Petrakis and Pantelis C Kostis

Developed democracies versus emerging autocracies: arts, democracy, and innovation in Quadruple Helix innovation systems

Arts, democracy, and innovation co-evolve. While for the Triple Helix model the existence of a democracy is not necessary for knowledge production and innovation, the Quadruple Helix is here more explicit. The...

Authors: Elias G Carayannis and David FJ Campbell

Ukrainian entrepreneurship in Italy: factors influencing the creation of ethnic ventures

This paper investigates the factors affecting the creation of ethnic ventures in the enclave in order to determine whether immigrants can be considered opportunity or necessity entrepreneurs. The results are help...

Authors: Diego Matricano and Mario Sorrentino

Research and development from the bottom up - introduction of terminologies for new product development in emerging markets

This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the commonly used terms jugaad, frugal innovation, frugal engineering, constraint-based innovation, Gandhian innovation, catalytic innovation, grassroots innovation, i...

Authors: Alexander Brem and Pierre Wolfram

Women-owned family businesses in transitional economies: key influences on firm innovativeness and sustainability

This research presents an examination of familial influence on strategic entrepreneurial behaviors within a transitional economic context. Utilizing a large sample of women-led family businesses, the study inv...

Authors: Lisa K Gundry, Jill R Kickul, Tatiana Iakovleva and Alan L Carsrud

Women, innovation, and literature

Avant-garde literature may influence the evolution of social attitudes and meanings. Women purchase the bulk of literary fiction products in the USA and may thereby play a hitherto undescribed role in business...

Authors: Desmond D Mascarenhas and Sally Vander Veer

Facilitating innovation in European research area through pre-competitive EU-funded COST Actions

The European Union (EU) Heads of States regularly confirm that knowledge and innovation are critical to Europe's growth and agreed to make the EU the most competitive knowledge-driven economy. The EU's ability...

Authors: Ruslan Rakhmatullin and Louis Brennan

From market failures to market opportunities: managing innovation under asymmetric information

This article presents a review of the literature that focuses on the role played by information asymmetry in the management of innovation. Results are organised in two categories. On the one hand, information ...

Authors: Pierre Barbaroux

Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: from microcredit to microfinance

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature reviews and descriptive research to present different aspects of the relationship of the mic...

Authors: Arvind Ashta, Mawuli Couchoro and Abu Saleh Mohammad Musa

Toward a typology of incubators based on HRM

The fact that there are major differences between one incubator and another has resulted in many authors working on multiple typologies. Although these typologies are relatively common in the literature, they ...

Authors: Chaffik Bakkali, Karim Messeghem and Sylvie Sammut

Open innovation, networking, and business model dynamics: the two sides

A business model describes the design of the value creation and capture mechanisms needed to yield profit. We contend that for a business model to be viable in turbulent and hypercompetitive environments, its ...

Authors: Brigitte Gay

The entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ and the organic square of entrepreneurship: definition and application to the French case

The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of the entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ (the set of knowledge, relations and financial res...

Authors: Dimitri Uzunidis, Sophie Boutillier and Blandine Laperche

Family business foundations: theoretical and empirical investigation

The paper examines family business foundations as connectors between the firm and the family from which they originate, adopting a coevolution approach that considers family and business as two subsystems which c...

Authors: Carmela Elita Schillaci, Marco Romano and Melita Nicotra

Small business participation in the advanced technology program research alliances

This study uses a database of small businesses that participated in the US Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to observe the role of research alliances in undertaking high-risk technolo...

Authors: Richard N Spivack

SMEs and knowledge-capital formation in innovation networks: a review of literature

To innovate, firms constitute a ‘knowledge-capital’, defined as a set of information and knowledge produced, acquired and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized c...

Authors: Blandine Laperche and Zeting Liu

From failure to corporate bankruptcy: a review

Prior to being a simple concept, the entrepreneurial failure is a multidimensional phenomenon. To contribute to its comprehension, this paper proposes to develop a synthetic vision of failure in order to escap...

Authors: Nadine Levratto

Informational approach of family spin-offs in the funding process of innovative projects: an empirical verification

In recent years, the increase in competitiveness, as a result of the economic globalization and crisis, has caused the bankruptcy of many Italian small family businesses working in traditional industries. Mean...

Authors: Francesco Campanella, Manlio Del Giudice and Maria Rosaria Della Peruta

The role of information in the credit relationship

A relationship between banks and firms that emphasizes the qualitative aspects of the enterprises may represent a response to the increasing difficulties of the credit system in financing a business system in ...

Authors: Francesco Campanella, Manlio Del Giudice and Maria Rosaria Della Peruta

Assisting regional policy by rapidly comparing enterprise innovation between regions

Regional development must heavily rely on innovation in order to be competitive and improve the standard of living of its citizens. However, regional policies regarding innovation is often limited by decelerat...

Authors: Yiannis Nikolaidis, Konstantinos Fouskas and Elias G Carayannis

Firm growth and its determinants

Enterprise growth has been studied by researchers for many years. Different terms have been used by different authors to define the stages of an enterprise growth, but the events through which each enterprise ...

Authors: Priya Dhamija Gupta, Samapti Guha and Shiva Subramanian Krishnaswami

The relationship between innovation, knowledge, and performance in family and non-family firms: an analysis of SMEs

This study seeks to examine the relationship between innovation and knowledge in family versus non-family businesses with regard to performance. Data from 430 small and medium-sized enterprises were analyzed t...

Authors: David P Price, Michael Stoica and Robert J Boncella

A strengths-based approach to mentoring women entrepreneurs: how to free the strengths within them

Entrepreneurship has been considered the route towards European recovery and growth. The contribution of female entrepreneurship is of utmost importance as women bring into business ventures attributes such as...

Authors: Olga Stavropoulou and Sophia Protopapa

Spontaneous processes of reproduction of family-based entrepreneurship: an empirical research on the cognitive nature of the spin-offs

Spin-offs refer to the creation of new firms by employees breaking off from existing firms to give birth to companies of their own. However, this phenomenon has not been predominantly observed in the context o...

Authors: Manlio Del Giudice, Maria Rosaria Della Peruta and Vincenzo Maggioni

Women engineers’ lack of precedence: the ‘virgin territory’ of robotics

In recent history, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been radically advanced and largely infiltrated daily routine. Additionally, modern educational methods encourage the use of ICTs in t...

Authors: Matina Tsavli and Dionisis Vavougios

Conceiving, exploring, and exploiting innovative ideas: from waste cooking oil to diesel

Conceiving, exploring, and exploiting new ideas are the basis for technological creativity and innovation. By far, the most important step is the conception of a new idea having the potential to be transformed...

Authors: Stella Bezergianni