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 article offers an original perspective on the impacts of multilateral cooperation for the development of the private sector in complex economic environments. It examines the financial instruments deployed by several financing institutions in support of EU pre-accession policies for the six...

This paper combines the features of outsourcing theory, the principal-agent model and institutional economics, and gives the guidelines how the firms in the Baltic countries might survive in the enlargened EU markets. Such guidelines are presented in three stages to demonstrate an institutional...