Within recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the University's role in economic
development. This has resulted in University Technology Transfer (UTT) taking place within …

This study investigates whether mobile phone penetration modulates the effect of different
indicators of governance on some indicators of the ease of doing business in Sub-Saharan …

Lifting the economic performance of lagging regions continues to puzzle economic
development practitioners and analysts. As a means of contributing some solutions to this …

Recent studies have called for a better understanding of the link between networking and
entrepreneurial performance. We provide such understanding in three ways: by focusing on …

This research explores how a research university develops its academic entrepreneurial
ecosystem (AEE) through building up process mechanisms, thereby improving the academic …

The aim of this study is to contribute to the international business field and research on the
innovativeness of international SMEs, by addressing the following research question: To …

This special issue focuses on empirical and theoretical papers that help us to better
understand the strategy and governance of entrepreneurial networks, such as franchise …

The issue of broadly-understood ties and collaboration be-tween business and science is
one of the key issues con-stituting the foundations for the modern knowledge-based …

The traditional vision of the university as a teaching institution still prevails in many
countries. Typical of this vision is the high-risk aversion to knowledge commercialization due …

According to the US Small Business Association, the failure rates for small businesses in
2014 were as high as 50% to 80% within the first 5 years of establishment. The purpose for …