Global technological competition has made technology transfer from academia to firms an important public policy issue ( Rahm, 1994 ). Academia and individual academic institutions are a primary source of new knowledge production and innovation ( Brennan & McGowan, 2007 ). It is widely...

This study contributes to a better understanding of performance induced by technological innovativeness by developing and testing a model. The model clarifies the nature of the influence of technological innovativeness and its organisational and inter-organisational antecedents (organisational...

This paper investigates the extent to which different knowledge sources contribute to firms’ innovation performance. The empirical analysis estimates the relationships in the structural model of the influence of knowledge sources on innovative performance using data collected through personal...

This paper investigates how entrepreneur’s characteristics determine debt financing of small manufacturing firms. In particular, we investigate the influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, strong and weak social ties, gender, age, and entrepreneur’s educational level on small firm debt...