The majority of research and practice tends to conceptualize innovation as a vertically coupled, intra-organizational process. We expand this perspective by conceptualizing innovation as a vertically decoupled, inter-organizational process and by studying the role of research universities as...

Interest in the concept of open innovation (OI) has increased during recent years; yet, this line of inquiry remains limited due to the lack of a more comprehensive conceptual framework. As a first step toward a unifying framework, we provide a critical review of previous research on the...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Literature Review <ul><li class="bullet"> Scope and structure of the review</li><li class="bullet"> Defining open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Nomological network of open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation adoption <ul><li class="bullet"> Firm characteristics</li><li class="bullet"> Technology considerations</li><li class="bullet"> External environmental conditions</li></ul> <p></li><li class="bullet"> Open innovation...</li></p></ul></li></ul>

This paper introduces the special themed section on organizational interactions involving universities and firms that result in the commercialization of research and technology. Our objective is to shed light on some of the most vexing, yet under-researched predicaments research institutions...

This prologue to the special issue documents and discusses the current family business research literature on strategy, ownership, governance and the socio-psychological dimension. The articles in this special issue represent theoretical and empirical research using micro and macro databases...

Although much has been written about the quantity of jobs created by entrepreneurs, scholars have yet to examine the quality of these jobs. In this article, the authors begin to address this important issue by examining nearly 5,000 businesses that began operations in 2004. They investigate the...