Public technology transfer and commercialization are attracting worldwide attention, but the research on of transferred from government-funded institutes (GRIs) to small- medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is scarce. This study aims identify prioritize factors contributing success technologies GRIs SMEs quantitatively present their importance. We proposed novel concepts SMEs’ GRIs’ proactiveness (...

This article adds to existing work on the drivers of early internationalization by exploring how born globals’ proactiveness evolves during their pre-foundation period and influences timing post-foundation. We perform a comparative, qualitative field study globals non-born based 22 university spin-out companies. The findings reveal that pre-foundation, which emerged as an evolutionary nonlinear...

Resurgence in agricultural-based sectors in Malaysia recently has prompted this study to explore the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) patterns as an indicator to explain Malaysian agro-based enterprises. The study is based on 615 observations of Bumiputera small and medium agro-based enterprises (BSMAEs) in three regional growth corridors (RGCs) throughout the Peninsular. Item analysis were don...

Drawing on a database of 149 university spin-offs, we investigated the impact of network capability (NC), defined as a firm’s ability to develop and utilize inter-organizational relationships, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on organizational performance. Not only do the results suggest that a spin-off’s performance is positively influenced by its NC, but the findings also indicate that a ...

An intelligent communicating agent has both the properties of intelligent agents and communicating agents, which are autonomy, reactivity, proactiveness and sociability. In this paper, we propose a modelbased approach to designing and implementing intelligent communicating agents for multi-agent systems (MAS). As background knowledge for our approach, we first briefly introduce the agent-orient...

The Multi agent system has been emerged as the most dominant research wing in the broad domain of artificial intelligence in recent time. The researchers endeavored to make several architectures to construct multi agent system with all its rational properties like autonomy, proactiveness, reactivity and social ability. Communication, cooperation and cognition are the fields relating multi agent...

The Secret Sharing scheme assumes long-lived shares. However the protection provided for such long lived and sensitive shares may be insufficient. The security in a system that is exposed to attacks and break-ins might become exhausted. The goal of the pro-active security scheme is to prevent the adversary from learning the secret or from destroying it. The Shamir’s Secret Sharing is pioneer me...

In this paper, we outline the relation between Knowledge Management (KM) as an application area on the one hand, and software agents as a basic technology for supporting KM on the other. We start by presenting characteristics of KM which account for some drawbacks of today’s – typically centralized – technological approaches for KM. We argue that the basic features of agents (social ability, au...

This study explores the alignment between IT/IS and marketing from a strategic perspective. The heads of IT and marketing of eighteen large New Zealand companies were interviewed, and their assessments of alignment rated according to two constructs: strategic orientation, and market orientation. The strategic orientation dimensions were aggressiveness, analysis, defensiveness, futurity, proacti...

This paper seeks to understand an entrepreneur’s decision to either the services or manufacturing sectors of the Ghanaian economy. This objective is significant because it provides an extension of current stream of literature, specifically, the Evans and Jovanovic (EJ) Model which focuses largely on an entrepreneur’s decision to start a business. The study seeks to understand the industry choic...