Traditionally, it has been assumed that immigrant entrepreneurs are disadvantaged relative to native entrepreneurs because they have limited access to resources and markets in their country of adoption. Although the outsider status of entrepreneurs may convey some disadvantages domestically,...

The creation of spinoffs by academic-inventors stimulates economic development and develops state-of-the-art technology (Shane, 2004). In this exploratory study, we examine why academicinventors commercialize inventions through the creation of a start-up. Drawing on data from a sample of 327...

Learning theory and an attention-based view of the firm are used to examine how an independent firm's degree of internationalization, age at first international entry, and entrepreneurial orientation are related to the attention it devotes to learning activities in international and domestic...