Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, we know little about the interplay between the activities of academia driven intermediaries and their publicly financed counterparts. Building upon a combination...

The concept of scale barriers is introduced to shed light on new venture growth. Growth is a process of overcoming resource deficiencies, or scale barriers, resulting from the liabilities of newness and smallness. New ventures employ a variety of resource accumulation strategies to surmount...

This contribution reviews definitions of entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial motives for networking. A distinction is drawn between entrepreneurial and family business networks. An outline of the variables that shape the composition of entrepreneurial networks looks into the boundaries...