. A total of 60 managers from a large manufacturing company participated in the study. They rated the creativity potential … contribute to an organization’s innovation. …

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 … 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 …

/>-------------------------------------------------------<br/> Traditionally, standards have been perceived as contradicting innovation. However, this view has been overturned in recent years … address will present the innovation-promoting impacts of standards in three different dimensions. In addition, possible … barriers for the exploitation of these potentials and negative implications of the interaction between innovation and …

framework in which product intelligence leads to consumer satisfaction through the innovation attributes of relative advantage …