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The EU has fewer young leading innovators, especially in high R&D intensity sectors, a key weakness in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. This volume explores the creation, origins and processes of innovation systems and institutions that can address this. Vital reading for academics, researchers and policy makers in entrepreneurship a
List of contents
1. Introduction
Part I: Survey and Case Studies 2. Conceptualizing Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship: Definition and Method 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 86 AEGIS case studies 7. Opportunities and Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of 86 AEGIS case studies of ventures
Part II: Sectors 8. Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in Different Sectoral Systems: A taxonomy 9. Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-technology Industries 10. Dynamic Capabilities in Young Knowledge-intensive Firms: An empirical approach 11. How Networks and Sectoral Conditions Affect Commercialization in a KIE Venture in the Medical Technology Industry: A case study of Aerocrine 12. Competing for Product Innovation in Knowledge-intensive Industries: The case of the digital audio players
Part III: Countries 13. Entrepreneurial Orientations of Knowledge-based Enterprises in Central and East Europe 14. The Determinants of Innovation: A patent- and trademark-based analysis for the EU regions 15. Knowledge Based Entrepreneurship and Emerging Economies
Part IV: Policy 16. Public Policy for Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship: Implications from the perspective of innovation systems
About the author
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
Summary
The EU has fewer young leading innovators, especially in high R&D intensity sectors, a key weakness in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. This volume explores the creation, origins and processes of innovation systems and institutions that can address this. Vital reading for academics, researchers and policy makers in entrepreneurship a
