New knowledge with commercial potential is continually created in academic institutions.
How is it turned into economically valuable businesses? This paper argues that the transfer …

The capitalization of knowledge is an emerging mode of production (Etzkowitz, 1983). Until
the past few decades, a sceptical view of firm formation was the taken-for-granted …

The process that turns knowledge into innovation is highly ambiguous and complex. This
study merges economic and management perspectives to extend the knowledge spillover …

Industrial culture focuses mainly on the production of 'things'–of static objects. Knowledge,
on the other hand, is constantly in flux, like a flowing stream. Conventional industrial notions …

In the last decades, a new and promising research field has been initiated linking
endogenous growth theory to knowledge spillovers and entrepreneurship theory: the …

Purpose Consistent with the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, the purpose of
this paper is to recognise the complementary entrepreneurial role of knowledge transfer …

In recent years, learning and knowledge in industry have gained increasing attention among
scholars and policy-makers in view of the fact that knowledge-intensive industries are now …

The active contribution of academic institutions to the technological, social and economic
development of societies is of increasing importance. To better understand this contribution …

Current emphases on the relationship between entrepreneurship and education reflect
several trends in modernity. Globalization and increasing competition between nations and …

The purpose of the chapter is to define the main elements which are necessary to the
existence of a theory of the firm leaving some 'room'for an 'entrepreneur'. Moreover we …