Innovative high-tech small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are thought to be drivers of economic renewal and growth. However, due to their limited size, SMEs face two fundamental innovation barriers: the risk that other organizations appropriate the returns to the newly created knowledge by...

While numerous academic studies sufficiently bond the emergence of (radical) innovations to macroeconomic growth (Plosser (1989); Freeman and Perez (1988); Mansfield (1983); Mensch (1979); Jovanovic and Lach (1997); Giedeman and Simons (2006)), the competitive mechanisms that influence small...

In this paper we argue that insights in the actor level of sustainability transitions are a necessary next step in the study of sustainability transitions. The paper outlines a first step towards a more systematic analysis of actor strategies in sustainability transitions by linking strategies...

Traditionally, regulations are seen as harmful for the starting and growing of firms. However, strict environmental regulation can also trigger the discovery and introduction of clean technologies, and this innovation might improve the competitiveness of the firm (the so-called Porter...