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SMEs' responses to potentially disruptive innovations : does strategic entrepreneurship provide an explanation?

Kay, Rosemarie; Nielen, Sebastian; Schröder, Christian - 2018

course of increasing digitization. Drawing on the strategic entrepreneurship approach we argue that SMEs showing strategic …

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Destructive digital entrepreneurship

Naudé, Wim - 2023

This paper provides a selective overview of destructive digital entrepreneurship. The concept is defined and elaborated in the context of the digital revolution post World War II. It is pointed out that the digital revolution was captured by the corporate sector: the incentives for unproductive...

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Adoption of digital technologies, business model innovation, and financial and sustainability performance in start-up firms

Autio, Erkko; Chiyachantana, Chiraphol N.; … - 2024

This report investigates the impact of digitalization on firm-level performance using survey data from 681 digital entrepreneurs across six Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Results show that the reliance of the business on select digital applications and the...

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Digitization and knowledge spillover effectiveness : evidence from the "German Mittelstand"

Proeger, Till; Runst, Petrik - 2019

digitization as a central process of knowledge spillover in recent years and determine digitization-related knowledge filters for … a federal innovation program, structural drivers, firm clusters and domain-specific knowledge filters for digitization … clustered according to their digitization pattern, we show that firms realize high degrees of digitization in most domains or in …

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Enhancing dynamism in SMEs and entrepreneurship in Korea

Jones, Randall Sidney; Lee, Jae Wan - 2018

Making SMEs and start-ups a driver of growth and job creation requires a number of policies to improve the performance of SMEs, whose labour productivity in the manufacturing sector has fallen to less than a third of that in large companies. The large-scale support for SMEs should shift from...

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Collaborative innovation blocs and mission-oriented innovation policy: an ecosystem perspective

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021

Among contemporary economists, Mariana Mazzucato stands out for her emphasis on the importance of innovation to solve pressing challenges and achieve a greater quality of life. However, the type of mission-oriented innovation policies she promotes usually rely on an overly mechanical view of...

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Time is on my side : relational contracts and aggregate welfare

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Plüger, Michael - 2018

This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...

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Big Tech, the platform economy and the European digital markets

Brühl, Volker - 2023

Digital platforms have become an important part of the digital economy by facilitating transactions between large numbers of users and by fostering innovation on collaborative platforms. In combination with technical platform services, some platform operators have managed to create powerful...

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New firms and new forms of work

Koch, Andreas; Pastuh, Daniel; Späth, Jochen - 2013

The present contribution examines whether and how young firms and incumbents differ with regard to selected aspects of work forms and work organization in order to assess their roles for the qualitative changes of work in industrialized countries. Conceptually, we emanate from the approach of...

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The role of R&D in new firm growth

Stam, Erik; Wennberg, Karl - 2009

Innovative start-ups are an important driver of economic growth. This article presents empirical evidence on the effects of R&D on new product development, inter-firm alliances and employment growth during the early life course of firms. We use a dataset that contains a sample of new firms that...

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