Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM. An organizational innovation confidence index is constructed from three questions …This article tests the hypothesis that entrepreneurs' confidence in innovation has a positive effect on their … their daily work, and use new products and services that will improve their working life. Innovation is measured by two …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

positively with the innovativeness of heirs. Conclusions: An appropriate culture for innovation needs to be created in FBs to …

the innovative processes in organizations. In recent years, many localized spaces of collaborative innovation have been …

Africa is still struggling. Traditional models of entrepreneurship and innovation were tailored for industrialized economies …. Frugal innovation is a new paradigm of affordable innovations to deal with resource scarcity in developing economies … bricolage and inventive analogies as stimulants of frugal innovations, which enhance sustainable entrepreneurship in developing …

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

direct equity investment to stimulate innovation that is appropriable by the investing firms. At the same time, CVC is also … paper, I analyze corporate venture capital (CVC) investment and innovation performance in the medical device industry. I … investing CVC is diminished if multiple CVCs (competitive CVCs) coinvest in the same startup firm. The suppression of innovation …

new to the market. To further explore why young SMEs are not more active in innovation, we explore their access to finance … classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or …

This article describes and assesses the management of innovation environments, such as business incubators and science …, technology, and innovation parks, resulting from university-industry-government (UIG) linkages. It also reviews recent literature …, named “Amaral’s Model for Innovation Environment Management” (AMIEM), was applied to five cases in Brazil. The empirical …