Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … consequences with regard to economic performance. This paper extends this theory and links it to innovation performance. We propose … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no …

In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and … business. In economics, there are many notions of entrepreneurship, some of which seem to contradict each other. For example …, there are notions of entrepreneurship as an equilibrating and as a disequilibrating force. In this paper, these differences …

, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as their relevance for entrepreneurship. An occupational … compensating pull of entrepreneurship in countries with low uncertainty avoidance may have gained momentum in recent years. Third …

China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …