Boari, Cristina; Fratocchi, Luciano; Presutti, Manuela - 2013
knowledge that new firms may find it difficult to locate and acquire. It has been found that the pattern of foreign development … useful to realize abroad both the knowledge acquisition and the knowledge exploitation, reinforcing the internationalization … propensity of start-ups. We seek to articulate, by drawing on social capital theory and its link to knowledge concept, how social …