This paper explores and explains the emergence and growth of new firms in the knowledge economy. The resource-based view, capabilities approach, and evolutionary economics are used as a foundation for a developmental approach. The development of the firm is conceptualized in terms of processes...

Examines the role of innovation in quickly evolving, turbulent industrial markets in the United States. Longitudinal data for more than 4.5 million U.S. businesses between 1976 and 1986 - found in the United States Small Business Data Base - are used to analyze the startup, survival, and overall...

We explore how coworking spaces are involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of start-ups contingent on the lifecycle stage of the firm and the coworking space market itself. Our study is based on a hand-collected detailed sample of coworking spaces in the seven largest regions in Germany. We...

Background: The analysis of entrepreneurial behaviour in incubated technology-based companies can help managers to understand their characteristics and how these aspects can be maximized to increase the performance of the companies. Objectives: This study proposes to measure the entrepreneurial...