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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

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

How overconfidence influences entrepreneurship

The only thing certain in economic life is that most of it is conducted into an uncertain environment; that raises a question though: what makes individuals pursue entrepreneurship which engages too much risk ...

Authors: Ioannis S Salamouris

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