This paper focuses on certain drivers of SME sales growth related to knowledge and innovation. Building on the dynamic … activities) predict sales growth, and if so, whether such effects are mediated by process and/or product innovation. Based on … family business), we conclude that external sourcing has direct effects on both product and process innovation, with an …

This essay uses Edmund Phelps’ new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change … (Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … niggardly evaluation of European innovation, and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of …

There are several studies in entrepreneurship investigating determinants of innovation outcomes in SMEs. Although … determinant of innovation. We use theoretical logics of social cognitive theory and innovation theory to develop a conceptual … model of entrepreneur’s creativity, self-efficacy, and innovation outcomes. The model is then tested on a large sample of …

to support process and product innovation activities. Although employment is not usually the main objective of these … important assumption. Using a combination of fixed effects and matching, we find that both process and product innovation … support increased employment and wages, with a higher impact on employment. In addition, we find that product innovation …

The capability to generate new knowledge and to create new firms differs across regions. Our study is an attempt to … new knowledge and start-up firms is positively linked to its level of competitiveness. This finding supports the belief … that innovation per se is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for regional economic development. Copyright Springer …

According to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, knowledge created endogenously results in knowledge …(1):15–30, <CitationRef CitationID="CR3">2009</CitationRef>). The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship ignores entrepreneurial …, entrepreneurial employee activity is more prevalent than independent entrepreneurial activity. Innovation indicators are positively …

goal of this study is to investigate whether there are any differences in research and development (R&D) and innovation … that established RSOs engage in R&D and innovation activities more frequently than companies whose genesis was of another … further development stages over otherwise created firms in terms of innovation outputs is related to their higher intensity of …

associated to market failures; (2) one size may not fit all in innovation policy when the type or intensity of market failure … knowledge-based firms, to start doing R&D. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledge-intensive industries differ from companies of …