discussing the concept. Subsequently, the implications of applying a competence-based approach in entrepreneurship education are … focussing on competence in entrepreneurship education lies in making the (potential) small business owner aware of the …The concept of competence, as it is brought into play in current research, is a potentially powerful construct for …

Innovation offers many opportunities for corporations. That is beyond dispute. The only question is how to make the … most of them. In this lecture, I show what the process of innovation entails; I give examples of successful and failed … management of the innovation process and the organisation of system innovation. Research findings show how companies can improve …

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance …, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement …

This paper explores whether the manager’s physical office work environment can stimulate the manager’s creativity …. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential … creativity potential. Compared to offices with low creativity potential, offices with high creativity potential have lower …

customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading … performance and, (4) both higher technology performance and a higher deviation affect sales positively, also when one controls for …

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 …

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 … contacts turns out to have a constraining or even detrimental effect on performance. The search and use of social capital is …

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