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The main objective of the paper is to address the question of how to foster innovation and small firm growth under … different levels of technological turbulence, flow experience, innovation and small firm growth (i.e. market share and ROI … environments in terms of the relationships of risk taking, flow at work, innovation and small firm growth. Based on a survey among …
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The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further … findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The …
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
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and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … entrepreneur in the innovation process. -- Innovation ; microenterprises ; SMEs ; development …Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …
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and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … entrepreneur in the innovation process …Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …
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This paper studies if and how individual-level patenting activity changes as an employee transitions to entrepreneurial firm founder. Using a large database of employment and innovative histories of over 1110 spinoff firm founders, the empirical strategy tracks both founders and her co-inventors...
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What is the relationship between venture capitalists’ selection of investment targets and the effects of these investments on the patenting performance of portfolio companies? In this paper, we set out a modelling and estimation framework designed to discover whether venture capital (VC)...
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&D-oriented firms versus all others - is somewhat limited. In particular, non-R&D innovation activity should be treated as an important … engaged in non-R&D innovation grow in a less risky and costly way than R&D innovators, and that a young firm's decision … whether to engage in R&D for the purpose of innovation and growth can therefore usefully be understood as being driven by a …
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between innovation and growth in young firms. To this end, this paper develops an augmented YIC categorization that also … includes non-R&D innovators and young firms that conduct R&D but have not yet brought an innovation to the market. Using panel …-R&Doriented YICs, typically focused on the 'Learning by Doing, Using, and Interacting' (DUI) mode of innovation, exhibit a distinct …
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knowledge or better access to international markets). These channels may be balanced by internal downsides (lower trust) and … information on revenues, product and process innovation. I then regress these measures of business performance on top team … between diversity and business performance, which is net positive for process innovation and net negative for turnover …
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