The paper focuses on three issues- a) innovations are knowledge based resulting from the synthesis and application of the tacit and the coded knowledge; b) the role of entrepreneur (as knowledge manager) is important for exploiting the tacit knowledge and making use of the coded knowledge; and c)...

Early internationalization and success in foreign markets play an important role in both a firm's growth and its impact on the global economy. We conducted a study on Japanese high-tech startups to investigate the factors that derive early internationalization in firms founded in countries with...