functional equivalents of institutions in the absence of well-developed, mature formal institutions. …

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … entrepreneurship in the process of the commercialization of knowledge. We discuss the implications for entrepreneurship and innovation …The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of …

paper I take a closer look at one aspect of innovation in services: appropriability. I discuss the different elements that …

sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view …

in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. This paper attempts to make a first step identifying …

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 …

or institutions (Hodgson 1999, 2004). In this article we argue, however, that these recent contributions, from the fields …. We provide a theoretical account of the conditions under which institutions change, and the likely direction of such … institutional settings and practices (Dolfsma 2004). As institutions should be conceptualized to have both structural as well as …