The main objective of this paper is twofold. The first is to develop a conceptualization of intergeneration business transfer as potential source of innovation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The second is to deepen such an understanding through an exploratory analysis on a sample...

Our main objective with this paper is to explore business transfer as as potential source of innovation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The literature on the subject has mainly focused to business succession as process through which ownership and control is transferred between...

Our main objective with this paper is to propose a scoreboard useful to assess clusters’ competitiveness in a knowledge-based economy. Our scoreboard is grounded on the concept of ecology of value. This concept highlights that the competitiveness of a network of small and medium enterprises...