Purpose This paper aims to conduct an extensive review and advances a framework for the
literature of high-growth firms (HGFs) and scale-ups. Design/methodology/approach This …

Scale-ups, or scaling firms, provide an important contribution to the economy. However,
there is little understanding of the characteristics of their scaling strategies, compared to the …

High-growth firms (HGFs) have attracted considerable attention recently, as academics and
policymakers have increasingly recognized the highly skewed nature of many metrics of firm …

Amid increasing interest in firm age and its effects on firm performance, this special issue
offers an exhaustive review of the literature and a novel collection of evidence on the effects …

Promoting high growth firms (HGFs) has become a strong fixation within enterprise policy.
This is a debate article seeking to examine and challenge the mythology perpetuated by …

This paper develops understanding about how incubation support and innovation strategy
can determine the performance of academic spin-offs. Using a sample of spin-offs from the …

This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the
evidence showing that innovative start-ups survive longer than their non-innovative …

High-growth firms (HCF) represent a highly desirable subset of firms, which provide
disproportionate economic gains, and greater insight into their determinants which is of …

In this article we discuss how to summarize the persistent and large heterogeneity in
innovative behaviour and economic performance. A revision of the Pavitt (1984) Taxonomy …

This study investigates how geographical proximity with innovation ecosystems' agents
contribute to Schumpeterian firms' innovation performance. By adopting the knowledge …