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Diversity in patterns of industry evolution: How an intrapreneurial regime contributed to the emergence of the service robot industry

Lechevalier, Sébastien; Nishimura, Junichi; Storz, Cornelia - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1716-1729

How do new industries emerge? This paper aims to answer this question by analyzing the key actors in this process. We focus on the new industry of service robot. By using data of Japanese patent applications, we analyze the role of new firms and of collaborations. We find that the emergence of...

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The elixir (or burden) of youth? Exploring differences in innovation between start-ups and established firms

Criscuolo, Paola; Nicolaou, Nicos; Salter, Ammon - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 2, pp. 319-333

Despite the widely acknowledged role of start-ups in economic development, little is known about their innovative activities compared with those of established firms. Drawing on a sample of 12,209 UK firms, we differentiate between services and manufacturing firms and, using a matching estimator...

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Mobilizing for change: A study of research units in emerging scientific fields

Clausen, Tommy; Fagerberg, Jan; Gulbrandsen, Magnus - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 7, pp. 1249-1261

, entrepreneurship and related phenomena. This article focuses – with the help of a survey of 136 research units worldwide supplemented …

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The emergence of entrepreneurship as an academic field: A personal essay on institutional entrepreneurship

Aldrich, Howard E. - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 7, pp. 1240-1248

The academic field of entrepreneurship research has grown from groups of isolated scholars doing research on small … scope of entrepreneurship research. Fifth, new mechanisms have emerged that recognize and reward individual scholarship …, reinforcing the identity of entrepreneurship research as a field and attracting new scholars into it. Sixth, globalizing forces …

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R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning

Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 1, pp. 54-68

This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. When examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies, three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...

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Contextualizing entrepreneurial innovation: A narrative perspective

Garud, Raghu; Gehman, Joel; Giuliani, Antonio Paco - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 7, pp. 1177-1188

We review literatures that inform entrepreneurial innovation, paying particular attention to different conceptualizations of contexts. Early research explored micro and macro approaches with some scholars taking an actor-centric perspective and others a context-centric perspective. Bridging...

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Financial signaling by innovative nascent ventures: The relevance of patents and prototypes

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 8, pp. 1407-1421

External finance is a central issue for innovative nascent ventures. In this study, we argue that innovative nascent ventures may use patents to signal appropriability and prototypes to signal feasibility to potential investors. Using new data on 906 nascent ventures, we find that nascent...

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A theoretical analysis of the role of social networks in entrepreneurship

Leyden, Dennis P.; Link, Albert N.; Siegel, Donald S. - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 7, pp. 1157-1163

Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … entrepreneurship increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. The results also lend credence to theories of entrepreneurship …

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Coming back home after the sun rises: Returnee entrepreneurs and growth of high tech industries

Kenney, Martin; Breznitz, Dan; Murphree, Michael - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 391-407

ignited a virtuous circle of technological entrepreneurship leading to rapid economic development. Much of this literature …

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Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base

Landström, Hans; Harirchi, Gouya; Åström, Fredrik - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 7, pp. 1154-1181

Entrepreneurship research has a long tradition and since the 1980s the field has grown significantly. In this study we … identify the ‘knowledge producers’ who have shaped the field over time and their core entrepreneurship research works. A unique … database consisting of all references in twelve entrepreneurship ‘handbooks’ (or state-of-the-art books) has been developed …

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