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.
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