Malerba / Caloghirou / McKelvey Dynamics of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship

Business Strategy and Public Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-68670-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten

Knowledge intensive entrepreneurship lies at the core of the structural shift necessary for the growth and development of a knowledge based economy, yet research reveals that the EU has fewer young leading innovators, and Europe’s new firms do not adequately contribute to industrial growth. This is especially true in the high R&D intensive, high-tech sectors. This structural malaise, undermining Europe’s growth potential, is well diagnosed, but poorly understood.

This volume fills this important gap by exploring new firms that have significant knowledge intensity in their activity and develop and exploit innovative opportunities in diverse sectors. Through an evolutionary and systemic approach to entrepreneurship, focusing on knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as both a micro and a macro phenomena and analyzing firms in the context of various socio-economic models, the authors explore firms creation and origins around the world, their organization, strategies and business models as well as the role of innovation systems and institutions in their formation and growth.

This comprehensive research text is vital reading for academics, researchers and students of high-tech and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship as well as those with an interest in industrial dynamics, innovation management and public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malerba, Franco

Caloghirou, Yannis

McKelvey, Maureen

Radoševic, Slavo

Radosevic, Slavo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part I: Survey and Case Studies 2. Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: Conceptual framework 3. The AEGIS Survey: A quantitative analysis of new entrepreneurial ventures in Europe 4. Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: Exploring a taxonomy based on the AEGIS survey 5. Managing Risk in New Entrepreneurial Ventures 6. Structuring the Process of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence and descriptive insights from eighty-six AEGIS case studies 7. A Meta-Analysis of Opportunities in Eighty-six AEGIS Case studies of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship Part II: Sectors 8. Mapping Sectoral Systems of Innovation: An empirical analysis of knowledge intensive firms 9. Dynamic Capabilities in Young Knowledge-Intensive Firms: An empirical approach 10. The Influence of Networks and Sector Conditions for Managing a KIE Venture: A case study of aerocrine in the Swedish medical technology industry 11. Variety and Product Innovation Strategies: Insights from the digital audio player industry Part III: Countries 12. Entrepreneurial Strategies of Knowledge Intensive Firms in Central and Eastern Europe 13. Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship and Emerging Economies Part IV: Policy 14. Public Policy and Business Strategy for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: AEGIS lessons

Über Autor(innen)

Franco Malerba, Professor of Industrial Economics, University of Bocconi, Italy

Yannis Caloghirou, Professor of Economics of Technology and Industrial Strategy at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Maureen McKelvey, Professor of Research, Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Gothenberg, Sweden

Slavo Radosevic, Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies, University College London, UK