Little research has been done on how the relationships of academic spin-off firms with their
parent university influence their ability to attract funding for innovation activities. University is …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a robust theoretical framework for
exploring the longitudinal impact of social capital on the performance of small business …

Though transfer of knowledge from university to the business world is not a new
phenomenon, scholars do agree that developments in the 1990s and 2000s both in the US …

This thesis explores the interplay between social capital and the development of small
professional firms. Social capital is a dominant paradigm in small firm research, yet little is …

Entrepreneurial capital has recently emerged as an important facet of entrepreneurship and
new venture creation. Much of the evidence to validate such claims emerged from research …

This paper seeks to attract notice to the issue of networking costs. We analyze essential cost
components of networking, and establish a tertium comparationis, ie a simple heuristic …