/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

Knowledge flows from universities to the regional economy can take different forms ranging from formal research … collaborations to consultancy and informal personal connections. One of the knowledge communication channels drawing substantial …-offs and rarely considers the specificities of university entrepreneurship most notably the role of scientists as entrepreneurs …

This paper investigates regional sources of entrepreneurial opportunities of knowledge-intensive start-up activity …. Thereby it is investigated whether it makes a difference if the knowledge-intensive sector is a newly emerging industry … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in East and West Germany in the 1990s. At the time of German re-unification in 1990 …

determine start-up activity. Not much is known about what drives entrepreneurship in unstable environments characterized by … talent into productive entrepreneurship is higher in areas abundantly endowed with individuals who have a relatively high … that pre- dates socialism. How institutional context affects entrepreneurship over the course of transition is reflected by …

This paper investigates how far in space university knowledge goes to breed the creation of knowledge knowledge …-intensive firms (KIFs), depending on the nature (codified or tacit) and quality of this knowledge. We consider the impact of knowledge … codified in academic patents and scientific publications and tacit knowledge embodied in university graduates on KIF creation …