In this paper we analyze patenting activities of family businesses, as compared to non-family ones. The main question is whether family business patent more or less. Then, we also analyze the composition of the inventor group and patent characteristics. To investigate these issues we analyzed a...

Using a definition of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) associated to the competencies of 40 family firms entrepreneurs, family SMEs were classified in different groups with respect to individual (gender), perceived and family governance measures. One-way ANOVA was used to identify the EO...

In this paper we analyze the role of the individual competencies of a sample of entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized Italian firms and their impact on business performance. First, we focus on the measurement of entrepreneurial competencies by using a variety of tools and then we try to find a...