Advancing Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Economic Growth and Social Well-being in Europe

This paper investigates the involvement of newly established knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms in strategic alliance networks. We construct a network of publicly announced alliances of an EAGIS group of firms. We find a dispersed network with many components, few hubs, and the vast majority of participants characterized as ultra-peripheral. This characterization particularly applies to our target group of companies. Given that at the time they were quite young and inexperienced, one would hardly expect anything else. Project co-funded by the European Commission under Theme 8 “Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities” of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.