In a study of Sungai Petani industrial companies, it was observed that while knowledge management offers cost savings, the real value is in more forward-looking managers that are technological entrepreneurs working in adaptive organizational environments. These managers are fundamental drivers of the technological innovation process. Their activities will create new resource combinations to mak...

Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is related to a lack of entrepreneurial behavior and/or to the weaknesses of Turkish innovation system. Exploring a unique firm-level survey realized among 50.000 small and medium sized enter...

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is ...

In recent years a growing awareness of the importance of entrepreneurial activity for economic development has triggered research on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Cross-national differences in levels of entrepreneurial activity may be explained by a wide range of economic, technological, cultural and institutional factors. In particular, differences in value systems and cultural orienta...

Third-party providers as entrepreneurs boost technology platforms. Yet, despite increasing interest in technological platforms, existing research offers little predictive insight into how firms can identify individuals who are likely to become entrepreneurs. We take the strategic perspective of a platform owning company, asking how to pinpoint those individuals who transition into entrepreneurs...

In this paper we analyze the emergence of R&D services in Bangalore, India, by focusing on the process of technological upgrading in the Indian software industry. The development trajectory of the Indian software industry and the upgrading it has experienced, from providing low-skill software services to providing high-skill R&D services, are examined using evidence from interviews with Indian ...

We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial orientation) and strategy (resource-based view) to develop an integrated model of transgenerational entrepreneurship. Following a review of the literature in these fields we develop propositions that articulate connections between a family f...

Entrepreneurship & Technology. Scientific advances are accelerating, changing technological and business paradigms while impacting firm organizations and industrial structures. One could assume technology entrepreneurship, the creation of new ventures based on technological innovations, is well researched. However, as Shane & Venkataraman (2003) note technology entrepreneurship while resting be...