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Universities as Research Partners in Publicly Supported Entrepreneurial Firms

Audretsch, David B.; Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2012

Partnerships between universities and industrial firms can play a key role in enhancing competitiveness because they provide a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the academic organization where knowledge is created to the firm where it is transformed into innovative activity. We set...

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How to License SEPs to Promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the IoT

Henkel, Joachim - 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) relies heavily on wireless communication technologies, which are covered by thousands of standard-essential patents (SEPs). Numerous applications of IoT technologies are being developed, frequently coming from entrepreneurial firms. The high degree of fragmentation...

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The Entrepreneur's Idea and Outside Finance : Theory and Evidence about Entrepreneurial Roles

Scott, John T. - 2015

We study the problem faced by the entrepreneur seeking outside support to turn an entrepreneurial idea into a successful innovation — specifically a successful technological innovation resulting from research and development. The paper develops and tests the hypothesis that as an...

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The selective nature of innovator networks: From the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where … paper intents to go one step further and analyses in how far differing characteristics of these networks lead to different …

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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia … addition, the analysis explores the effectiveness of Russia’s informal networks for circumventing the weak institutional … entrepreneurial activity. Our results support the notion of the limited effectiveness of Russia’s networks for supporting …

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Entrepreneurship and market order: Some historical evidence

Bitros, George C.; Minoglou, Ioanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Our objective here is to establish the proposition that creative entrepreneurship gives rise to a market order which is optimally adjusted to facilitate the introduction and the diffusion of innovations, particularly those that take the form of new markets, new organizational schemes, new...

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Coordination frictions in venture capital syndicates

Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - 2017

An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and agency problems between investors and entrepreneurs, examining how separating entrepreneurs from the investor can create frictions that might inhibit the funding of good projects. It has largely abstracted away...

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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'

Proeger, Till - 2017 - Revised version: November 2017

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing incumbents’ innovative performance, the systematic reduction...

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Knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity - institutional evidence from the 'German Mittelstand'

Proeger, Till - 2017

Recent extensions to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) show that the successful commercialization of new knowledge by incumbents depends on their absorptive capacities. For policy-makers focusing on increasing incumbents' innovative performance, the systematic reduction...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011713037

The selective nature of innovator networks : from the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle

Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572658