New Technology-Based Firms in the New MillenniumWard et al., examine the question of whether providing work experience within courses of study in higher education affects entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviour, important given government imperatives to foster entrepreneurship through the education system. They consider two dimensions: self-efficacy, which broadly relates to confidence in ability; and, entrepreneurial intent which relates to positive attitudes towards engaging in risk taking or firm start-up. Their sample is of 158 undergraduates who engaged in a summer work placement linked to their study. Their key finding is that positive effects on self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intent depends on the nature of the experience, being fostered by performing well in the face of difficulty and the closeness of the placement activity to their studies. Such experience appears more common when undertaking a placement in a small firm. Van der Sijde et al., consider the extent to which University start ups which are global as opposed to being domestically focussed differ in the extent of their business networks, using a sample comprising five technology-based firms of each type. They establish that global start-ups do have more extensive networks in terms of number of actors and global actors in the network at start-up, although their networks do not expand thereafter significantly more than domestic start-ups. They also have significantly more sources of capital. |
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Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 2 Encouraging Research and Development in Irelandaposs Biotechnology Enterprises | 7 |
Chapter 3 How Industrial Experience Affects Entrepreneurial Intent and SelfEfficacy in UK Engineering Undergraduates | 23 |
Paradoxes in Enterprise Development Strategy The Case of the Disappearing Strategy The Case of the Disappearing Academic StartUps | 37 |
A Case Study of an Entrepreneurship Programme | 55 |
The Medici Fellowship Programme | 69 |
Chapter 7 An Empirical Assessment of Porteraposs Clusters Concept Based on Londonaposs Media Industries | 85 |
Chapter 8 Network Differences between Domestic and Global University StartUps | 103 |
Evidence from Japanese HighTechnology StartUp Firms | 117 |
An Empirical Study among Germanyaposs Internet and ECommerce StartUps | 147 |
Chapter 11 The HighTechnology Pecking Order in Spinoffs and NonSpinoffs in the Irish Software Sector | 163 |
Case Studies from 10 UK Universities | 185 |
Chapter 13 Analysis of the Factors Leading to Success or Failure of StartUp Companies in the Field of Micro and Nanotechnology | 203 |
Chapter 14 Drivers of Strategic Direction in High Technology Small Firms | 219 |
Views and Lessons of Israeli Experts | 239 |
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academic spinoffs analysis areas ASUs Audretsch biotech biotechnology Cambridge capital structure cluster commercialisation e-commerce e-commerce start-ups economic Enterprise Enterprise Ireland entrepreneurs entrepreneurship environment equity experience external factors financing Forfas founders funding geographic global start-ups Groen growth high-technology HTSF ICSTI impact important industry spinoffs information asymmetries Institute International Internet and e-commerce investment Ireland Irish knowledge spillovers Linköping University Medici fellows Miles and Snow nanotechnology NTBFs Oakey organisation paper participants performance Poisson regression Porter potential PRIs programme prospector R&D expenditure relationship Research Policy resource-based view Review role sector self-efficacy Sijde skills Small Business small firms SMEs sources spin-outs spinoffs and non-spinoffs Strategic Management Journal strategy success Table tacit knowledge tax credits tax shield Technology-Based Firms types University University of Cambridge variable venture capital venture-capital-backed