Description
This Handbook focuses on techno-entrepreneurial ecosystems under several different aspects: how the ecosystems have evolved in techno-entrepreneurship, the influence that techno-entrepreneurs can have on complex ecosystems such as regions and nations, and the new types of innovations that techno-entrepreneurs are pursuing to adapt to the ecosystems, such as frugal innovation.
Contents:
Part I Conceptualisation
1. Technological Embeddedness as a Determinant of Techno-Entrepreneurship
Sang-Joon Kim and Juil Lee
Part II New categories of Entrepreneurship
2. Reverse Innovation: Review of a Decade
Max von Zedtwitz and Marine Hadengue
3. Modes and Routines of Frugal Innovation: An Examination on the Basis of the Auto Components Industry
Rajnish Tiwari and Stephan Bergmann
4. The Interplay of Technology Entrepreneurs and Regulation in a New Industry: The Case of the Drone Industry
Ferran Giones, Kerem Gurses and Alexander Brem
5. Unveiling Women Entrepreneurship in Technology Ventures: Gendered Organization and Gendered Society Interactions
Dilek Cetindamar and Berna Beyhan
Part III Ecosystems
6. Techno-entrepreneurship development support in theory and practice: the case of incubators and accelerators in Canada
Fabiano Armellini, Cynthie Dega, Angie Garcia and Franciso Machado
7. Crowdfunding as a tool for innovation marketing: technology entrepreneurship commercialization strategies
Ferran Giones and Alexander Brem
8. Fostering Techno-Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation Practices in the Innovation Ecosystems – Case Nokia
Jarkko Pellikka and Timo Ali-Vehmas
9. Digital technologies, techno-entrepreneurship and regional ecosystems: The case of The Net Value
Moreno Frau and Ludovica Moi
Part IV Academic Entrepreneurship
10. Research-based spin-offs as agents of knowledge dissemination: evidence from the analysis of innovation networks
Oscarina Conceição, Cristina Sousa and Margarida Fontes
11. Individual Innovativeness as a driver of career success: academic tehno-experts in an entreprneeurial ecosystem
Anna-Maija Nisula and Heidi Olander
Part V Country-specific entrepreneurship
12. SME Techno-Entrepreneurship: Drivers and Barriers in sub-Saharan Africa
Olayinka David-West, Omotayo Muritala and Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro
13. Entrepreneurship, technological knowledge and industrial heterogeneity: Evidence from Italian NUTS3 regions.
Alessandra Colombelli, Gianluca Orsatti and Francesco Quatraro
14. Nurturing Healthy Korean Startup Ecosystem
Gyewan Moon
15. Understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: Evidence from a longitudinal case study
Maria Cristina Cinici, Valeria Schifilliti and Fabrizio Cesaroni
