competencies, radical innovation, corporate venture capital investment, the mentoring of high-tech entrepreneurs. The Handbook then …

techno-entrepreneurship, effectuation, techno-intrapreneurship, academic entrepreneurship, frugal innovation. With chapters …1. The knowledge base of technology entrepreneurship / Ivan Zupic -- 2. Technology entrepreneurship, innovation and … -- 5. The commercialization process of innovation in small high-technology firms : theoretical review / Jarkko Pellikka …

policies in innovation processes / Fabrizio Cobis -- 3. Finding, financing and growing technology-based innovations : a … innovation in small and medium-sized firms : the importance of social capital and networking in innovative entrepreneurship …. Using innovation, research, and finance to build a company with a multi-option strategy / Roberto Siagri, Andrea Barbaro and …

, and experimental work. All studies deal with the innovation effects of public procurement, that is, the purchase by … governments of goods and services. The idea that public procurement can stimulate innovation originates from the seminal work of … on the innovation effects of public procurement to guide the empirical analysis. This thesis picks up on these …

Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage …. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists …Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and …

research and teaching synergies in innovation and enterprise -- 9. Action research for enterprise research. -- 10. Case … -- 12. Issues in cross-national comparisons applied to building theory on informal innovation in SMEs -- 13. Marketing …

institutions in developing countries -- 7. Financial systems, investment in innovation, and venture capital : the case of China … -- 8. Venture capital and innovation : the Indian experience -- 9. The emergence of Singapore venture capital industry …