In this study, we examine the relationships between new ventures’ ties with service intermediaries (i.e., technology service firms, accounting and financial service firms, law firms, and talent search firms) and their product innovation in the context of a technology cluster. Because service intermediaries sit at the intersection of many firms, organizations and industries, they maintain extens...

This paper describes New Ventures, a new initiative at Sandia National Laboratories that encourages the creation of new businesses based on laboratory technology as a timely, eficient means of technology transfer Sandia’s New Ventures program has shown that a dedicated effort can produce significant results. In the three years prior to this program’s launch, just two ventures per year on averag...

This paper reports on a qualitative research in which the main themes for understanding and operationalizing behavioural market orientation of technology based ventures in biotechnology have been identified. The research forms a basis for future quantitative research assessing the degree and performance implications of behavioural market orientation of knowledge intensive high technology SMEs. ...