Global technological competition has made technology transfer from academia to firms an important public policy issue ( Rahm, 1994 ). Academia and individual academic institutions are a primary source of new knowledge production and innovation ( Brennan & McGowan, 2007 ). It is widely...

This study contributes to a better understanding of performance induced by technological innovativeness by developing and testing a model. The model clarifies the nature of the influence of technological innovativeness and its organisational and inter-organisational antecedents (organisational...

This paper investigates how entrepreneur’s characteristics determine debt financing of small manufacturing firms. In particular, we investigate the influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, strong and weak social ties, gender, age, and entrepreneur’s educational level on small firm debt...

This paper explores the phenomenon of collective learning in the context of clusters, and investigates how collective learning contributes to the innovation performance of cluster firms. Collective learning is an interactive process of accumulating knowledge from different local resources. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze entrepreneurs' coping strategies used to face stakeholders' expectations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws from the general management, role theory, and entrepreneurship literature to develop hypotheses that are tested by using...

Purpose: Knowledge sharing in research communities has been considered indispensable to progress in science. The aim of this paper is to analyze the mechanisms restricting knowledge sharing in science. It considers three categories of academia–industry knowledge transfer and a range of...

Interest in the field of entrepreneurship has significantly increased among academics, practitioners and government officials in the past decade both in the USA and in Europe. The increased interest is reflected in the increased number of courses, majors and minors at colleges and universities...

By drawing from the social network literature, this research analyses relationships between strong and weak ties and network's benefits for personal success of entrepreneurs. The empirical analysis is context-based within a specific network where such multiplex ties are embedded. In particular,...

Summary We test a causal model of entrepreneurs' role stressors--role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload--and their relationships with exhaustion and reduced perceptions of compensation for one's efforts which over time lead to the development of a proclivity for venture withdrawal....