New Tracking Methods to Research the Business Creation Activities Among Entrepreneurs

Internationalization of business expenditures on R&D (BERD)

Challenge accepted - Why some entrepreneurs succeed where others do not: An exploratory study on context and challenge perception and the choice of strategic activities of entrepreneurs in Dutch high-technology and clean-technology start-ups

Wealth, prosperity and sustainable economic growth for future generations are topics which today’s policy makers and society have to deal with on an everyday basis. Radical technologies, disrupting incumbent technological and societal regimes play an important role in realizing these advances. Entrepreneurial innovation has been identified as...

Developing a business opportunity assessment framework: The case of the Prodrive Automated Electrical Tester

A framework to assess business opportunities is being developed in this document. The framework is designed to solve the problem that the decision of managers to exploit a certain technology by means of a certain strategy is often based upon a feeling rather than a set of rational criteria. Therefore these decisions are hard to codify, discuss...

Venture Capitalists’ Human Capital: Investigating the relation between human capital and venture capital strategy

Because of the risks involved in financing in new high-tech, high-growth ventures, one of the few funding sources available is venture capital. Venture Capital firms are businesses that are owned and managed by venture capitalists (VCs). Within these firms the VCs manage Venture Capital funds, one VC or Venture Capital firm can manage multiple...

Designing a Course for Stimulating Entrepreneurship in Higher Education through Serious Games

Enhancing the offer for entrepreneurship education is an important challenge for the nowadays knowledge societies. The eSG project is addressing this issue by analysing the added value that could be contributed by employing serious games (SGs) as a tool for allowing students – in particular technology students - to become familiar, mainly...

Capacities and governance in Kenya: Lessons in technology transfer

First the authors set the scene by exploring the main lines of the present development debate. They take a nuanced stand, not only looking at failures of Western development initiatives, but also going into the internal dynamics of African societies which stand in the way of social and economic development. Next they present some case studies of...

Entrepreneurial Networks of University Spin-offs: How Social Networks Affect the Growth of Firms

Knowledge can be valorized in many different ways. University spin-offs have proven to be very effective as the knowledge generated in a university or research institute is directly translated into commercial activities. In addition, university spin-offs have played an important role in the economic and innovation growth of the region. While...