Handbook of Research on Techno-entrepreneurship (Elgar Original Reference)

COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD......Page 11
1 How techno-entrepreneurs build a potentially exciting future?......Page 13
2 A model of technological entrepreneurship......Page 36
3 Exchange relationships in techno-entrepreneurship research: toward a multitheoretic, integrative view......Page 49
PART 2 PROCESSES......Page 71
4 S&T commercialization strategies and practices......Page 73
5 From the exploration of new possibilities to the exploitation of recently developed competencies: evidence from five ventures developing new-tothe- world technologies......Page 94
6 Fostering entrepreneurial firms: recognizing and adapting radical innovation through corporate venture capital investments......Page 121
7 Mentoring of Malaysian high-tech entrepreneurs in their pre-seeding phase......Page 136
PART 3 INCUBATORS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS......Page 171
8 University technology transfer through university business incubators and how they help start-ups......Page 173
9 Determinants and consequences of university spin-oFF activity: a conceptual framework......Page 180
10 The size and the characteristics of the high-tech spin-oFF phenomenon in Sophia Antipolis......Page 194
PART 4 INDUSTRY SPECIFICS: E-ENTREPRENEURSHIP......Page 209
11 What is e-entrepreneurship? Fundamentals of company founding in the net economy......Page 211
12 Exploring the socio-demographic characteristics of the e-entrepreneur: an empirical study of Spanish ventures......Page 229
13 Virtual alliances as coordination and influence mechanisms in the Internet context: evidence from a cross-section of Internet-based firms......Page 244
PART 5 INDUSTRY SPECIFICS: BIOTECHNOLOGIES......Page 273
14 The St Louis BioBelt – centre for plant and life sciences: a triumph of converging individual efforts......Page 275
15 Small businesses for high targets: strategies in industrially exploiting the DNA–RNA biomechanisms......Page 306
Index......Page 333