This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be science-based or to use research and development intensively, in the East Central European (ECE) context. On the basis of case studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six...

This paper summarises results of a survey of 304 knowledge based firms in six centraland east European (CEE) countries. Knowledge-based entrepreneurs in CEE are not‘gazelles’ (i.e., fast growing new technology based firms which have the potential toreshape the industrial landscape). They...