Technology and entrepreneurship are often reckoned to be the twin-horses pulling national economies towards their developmental destinations. Technology based enterprises (TBEs) are specially attractive to policy-makers because of their higher potential for job creation and wealth-generation...

Technological innovation, although vital for sustenance of firms against fierce global competition, presents a paradox in micro-economic theory on the managerial decisions related to the financing of such innovation. In particular, budgeting decisions in R&D and innovation at the firm level do...

Commercializing new and emerging technologies is a major source of discontinuous change in the economy and hence, would lead to qualitative rather than quantitative progress. New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs), therefore, have an important role in the development of the economy. The present...

Entrepreneurial motivation has been a topic that dominated entrepreneurship research for more than two decades. Currently, this line of research is almost abandoned because it has apparently failed to bring out coherent results enhancing the predictability of entrepreneurial behavior. One of the...

Deviating from their traditional focus on the abstract and the theory universities and higher education institutions (HEIs) have, of late, been paying a lot of attention to the practical applications of knowledge generated in the HEI system. Developing new products and services from research...

Part I: Introduction - Chapter 1. Internationalization of SMEs: The Role of Strategies, Resources and the Ecosystem -- Part II: Individual and Firm-level Resources for Internationalization -- Chapter 2.Internationalization of SMEs in Emerging Economies: Critical Role of Firm level Resources --...