This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...

The literature on national systems of innovation (NIS) has neglected the issue ofentrepreneurship because of several incompatibilities between the two notions.The Schumpeterian legacy, the current person-centric view of entrepreneurship,and methodological problems related to treating...

Videoton is the main contracting manufacturing company in the electronics industry in central Europe. The business model that has been developed through Videoton has greater relevance for understanding the growth of enterprises and the modes of integration of the Central and Eastern Europe into...