It has long been pointed out that entrepreneurs in Japan face many obstacles, that the startup ratio is low, and that growth tends to curbed (Feigenbaum and Brunner, 2002; Tajji and Tsuyuki, 2010). Internet and mobile related businesses are, however, growing at the global level, and this wave has...

The global strategies of high-tech start-ups fall into two types. One is characteristic of knowledge-based firms; the other is characteristic of knowledge-intensive firms. We present two propositions related to timing of globalization and resource acquisition for each type and examine four case...