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Silicon Valley in the Polder? Entrepreneurial Dynamics, Virtuous Clusters and Vicious Firms in the Netherlands and Flanders

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H.; Elfring, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

the location of ICT firms decision. Furthermore, many high-tech companies shape clusters around areas where their major … Internet and ICT technology. A dynamic model previously developed for the analysis of ICT-entrepreneurship and networking will … be applied to make a critical analysis of five ICT-clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern part of Belgium …

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Clustering in ICT: From Route 128 to Silicon Valley, from DEC to Google, from Hardware to Content

Hulsink, Hulsink, W.; Manuel, D.; Bouwman, Bouwman, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

One of the pioneers in academic entrepreneurship and high-tech clustering is MIT and the Route 128/Boston region. Silicon Valley centered around Stanford University was originally a fast follower and only later emerged as a scientific and industrial hotspot. Several technology and innovation...

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Spatial Structure and Productivity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Burger, Martijn Johan; Meijers, Meijers, E.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Recent concepts as megaregions and polycentric urban regions emphasize that external economies are not confined to a single urban core, but shared among a collection of close-by and linked cities. However, empirical analyses of agglomeration and agglomeration externalities so-far neglects the...

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On the Specification of the Gravity Model of Trade: Zeros, Excess Zeros and Zero-Inflated Estimation

Burger, Martijn Johan; Oort, Frank van; Linders, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

Conventional studies of bilateral trade patterns specify a log-normal gravity equation for empirical estimation. However, the log-normal gravity equation suffers from three problems: the bias created by the logarithmic transformation, the failure of the homoscedasticity assumption, and the way...

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The Current State of Research on Networks in China’s Business System

Meuer, Meuer, J.; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

The purpose of the paper is to assess the current state of network research in China’s business system. Research on networks has developed significantly during the last decades in regards to analytic techniques, number of research projects, and accumulated findings. While research on networks...

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management (KM) (in terms of external acquisition and internal sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view underlie the proposed framework and hypotheses. The...

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The Performance Of Team Start-Ups In The First Phases Of The Life Course

Stam, Stam, F.C.; Schutjens, Schutjens, V. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform...

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Understanding a Two-Sided Coin: Antecedents and Consequences of a Decomposed Product Advantage

Rijsdijk, Rijsdijk, S.A.; Langerak, Langerak, F.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

This article investigates the antecedents and consequences of two product advantage components: product meaningfulness and product superiority. Product meaningfulness concerns the benefits that users receive from buying and using a new product, whereas product superiority concerns the extent to...

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IPRs, Technological Development, and Economic Development

Dolfsma, Wilfred - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006

In the year 2000 some $142 billion in royalties were paid internationally by users of a specific piece of knowledge that were protected under Intellectual Property Right law (IPR) to those parties that owned these rights. Under current circumstances where knowledge & innovation play an...

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Explaining Female and Male Entrepreneurship at the Country Level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on...

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