For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

Entrepreneurship is a subject of great interest, a process in which more and more people want to take part. The main character of entrepreneurial process is the entrepreneur. He is motivated by various factors and, with certain abilities, competences, attitudes and skills he can develop a sustainable business. In this study, the author aims to develop a profile of technological entrepreneur, st...

Corporate entrepreneurship can be considered important for organizational performance. While being recognized to be important for development of innovations and technologies of small and medium sized firms and for innovation/technology strategies of large firms, inter-organizational relationships in terms of networks and alliances have received limited research attention in the context of corpo...

the paper under review delineates the scenario, perspective and the future trends of science –driven entrepreneurship in the islamic world. it digs out the factors causing the sluggishness and suggests the plan of action for the renaissance of indigenous science –driven entrepreneurship with grafting of the modern scientific high tech marketing techniques on it. the paper highlights that entrep...

Previous definitions from the literature do not explore and identify: the ultimate outcome of technology entrepreneurship; the target of the ultimate outcomes; the mechanism used to deliver the ultimate outcomes; or the nature of the interdependence between technology entrepreneurship and scientific and technological advances. Moreover, a new definition should explicitly link technology entrepr...

One of the latest and most controversial areas of science is biotechnology. Genetic engineering concerns with the manipulation of DNA molecules to modify plants, animals and other creatures. Scientists are now able to isolate a gene or genome in an animal or plant to another one, based on the traits they want to transfer. The movement of a gene from a living creature to another one is called th...

J. Machnik-Słomka, P. Kordel, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Poland Tis article presents the categories of technological entrepreneurship and creativity that constitute a new perspective on developmental mechanisms of contemporary enterprises. These mechanisms are of particular significance in relation to industrial enterprises, including metallur...

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in manufactures, this has been a...

due to the tough on-going competition between producers of commodities and services, the prices of products are continuously going down nowadays. to avoid bankruptcy in such circumstances, organizations have focused on the application of technological innovations that enable them to respond to the needs of their clients. it is to this end that they attempt to gain the market and increase their ...