The paper examines the determinants of productivity growth in foreign manufacturing subsidiaries in five Central and East European (CEE) countries by analysing patterns of control, nature of firms' capabilities and firms' market orientations. Building on the so-called ‘subsidiary development'...

This paper summarises results of a survey of 304 knowledge based firms in six centraland east European (CEE) countries. Knowledge-based entrepreneurs in CEE are not‘gazelles’ (i.e., fast growing new technology based firms which have the potential toreshape the industrial landscape). They...

The literature on national systems of innovation (NIS) has neglected the issue ofentrepreneurship because of several incompatibilities between the two notions.The Schumpeterian legacy, the current person-centric view of entrepreneurship,and methodological problems related to treating...