’s internal and external environment. This dissertation contributes to the entrepreneurship and innovation literatures by …

, knowledge and imagination, opportunity exploitation and opportunity exploration, and conformist innovation and deviant … innovation. The paper makes explicit, through the notion of performance paradox, the context for the framework that results from … should be by illuminating who they might be. The paper identifies opportunities for innovation, research and reflection by …

It is increasingly understood that learning and thus innovation often occurs via highly interactive, iterative, network …, universities, and other sources of knowledge, SMEs, and the creation and dissemination of innovation. This paper analyses the … contribution of a range of actors in an SME innovation creation and dissemination framework, reviewing the role of various …