Competitiveness of High-Tech Start-Ups and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Overview

The Effects of Incubation on Academic and Non- Academic High-tech Start-ups. Evidence from Italy

This study aims at empirically investigating whether technology incubators help academic high-tech start-ups to establish collaborations with other organizations, thus increasing the competitiveness of these firms. In doing so, we take into account the specificities of academic hightech start-ups with respect to their non-academic counterparts. We compare the effects of incubation on academic a...

Entrepreneurial resources, dynamic capabilities and start-up performance of Taiwan's high-tech firms

This study addresses the resources and performance of start-ups in a rapidly changing market. Using data from Taiwanese high-tech firms, this investigation demonstrated that dynamic capabilities were significantly helping to leverage entrepreneurial resources to benefit start-up performance, and moreover demonstrated that dynamic capabilities mediated between entrepreneurial resources and perfo...

Cultural Clashes in a “merger of Equals”: the Case of High-tech Start-ups

Mergers of equals are often considered simply symbolic. Whereas existing literature on the topic views equality as underscoring the importance of distributive justice, power, or identity, the role of culture remains relatively obscure. In this study, the authors explore equality as a dynamic construct associated with two major processes in mergers of equals: cultural clash and cultural construc...

Entrepreneurial Strategies of High Growth Start-ups: Building Legitimacy or Attracting Customers?

We explore the growth strategies that are deployed by young technology based firms, which have a commitment to growth. Based on six case studies of high growth firms that pursued different growth strategies, we build theory on why some firms grow in terms of revenue while others grow by building value; two firms grew in employment, two firms grew revenues and two firms grew in terms of both emp...

High-tech indicators: assessing the competitiveness of selected European countries