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The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Managers often see new organizational design as the solution to many problems. This paper explores the relationship between organization structure (design), functioning of organizations, and effectiveness. A study of 320 companies showed that the structural variable, decentralization, marginally...
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Strong market orientation is essential to firm success. In the diverse and dynamic digital environment, a strong market orientation philosophy is even more important to the digital entrepreneur. We explore the advantages and challenges that the networked world offers the market-oriented digital...
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The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors – family and friends – is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...
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organization. Finally, we discuss several directions for future research in this increasingly important area of innovation and …
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innovation by enabling firms to invest in promising new R&D projects as soon as they are discovered, or to maintain R&D during … uncertainty, thus driving more commercially valuable innovation. This is one of the few studies providing empirical evidence of …
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Valley, respectively, these IC firms can easily imitate any innovation through the interactions among intra-industry firms …. The contribution of intra-industry innovation development to firms' technological advancement is defined as the "spillover … effect". This paper compares how the innovation characteristics and industrial clustering influence the spillover effects …
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Innovation is of vital importance, not only to commercial companies, but also to governments. For the Dutch, innovation … evaluation of a water innovation program carried out by the Dutch government, using the cyclic innovation model, shows that there … is a broad understanding of innovation, that innovators see innovation as a significant break from the "old" and …
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Higher education and community partnerships have transitioned from casual relationships to more of a mandate with the advancements in technology and globalization. The result of this large-scale change has led to an increase in these efforts, but the relationships are still emerging. Using...
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