Knowledge Spillover-based Strategic Entrepreneurship Routledge Frontiers of Business Management Series

This book is about the role of knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship in the management context. It focuses on how knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship are crucial to the process of creative destruction and construction.

The book aims to provide insights into and discussion on how firms combine entrepreneurial action that creates new opportunities for industries, regions and economies. This book is first of its kind to link knowledge management perspectives to strategic entrepreneurship to understand the co-creation process. Being interdisciplinary in nature, this book appeals to entrepreneurship and knowledge management scholars, students and practitioners.

Introduction

1 Knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship: an overview
VANESSA RATTEN, LÉO-PAUL DANA AND JOÃO J. FERREIRA

PART I Knowledge spillovers in multiple contexts

2 Knowledge spillovers and economic performance of firms located in depressed areas: does geographical proximity matter?
LILIANA ARAÚJO, SANDRA TAVARES SILVA AND AURORA A.C. TEIXEIRA

3 The role of multinationals in creating export spillovers as an additional process to productivity spillovers: evidence from Turkey
BAŞAK DALGIÇ AND BURCU FAZLIOĞLU

4 Relational spillovers and knowledge creation across European regions: are there differences across R&D institutional sectors?
DANIELA DI CAGNO, ANDREA FABRIZI, VALENTINA MELICIANI AND IRIS WANZENBÖCK

5 How to boost knowledge-spillover effects in disadvantaged regions?
MANUELA F. NEVES, JOÃO J. FERREIRA AND FERNANDO FERREIRA

PART II Strategic entrepreneurship and knowledge

6 Institutional entrepreneurship: a new interconnectivity between government–university–enterprises in Wuhan future technology city of China
CONNIE ZHENG

7 The performance of the academic KIBS firms in a ‘moderate innovator’ country: a longitudinal analysis
SARA FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ, MARÍA JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ-GULÍAS AND DAVID RODEIRO-PAZOS

8 Ambidexterity revisited: the influence of structure and context and the dilemma exploration vs. exploitation
JOSÉ RICARDO C. ANDRADE, JOÃO J. FERREIRA AND VANESSA RATTEN

9 Learning to compete: entrepreneurial roles exploiting knowledge spillovers
RONALD C. BECKETT AND GERARD BERENDSEN

PART III Strategic and international knowledge

10 Interconnectivity between academic organizations and established firms for a strategic and knowledge fostering purpose: an exploratory study in an emerging economy
FERNANDO HERRERA, MARIBEL GUERRERO AND DAVID URBANO

11 International knowledge transfer from Kodak to ITRI: a strategic alliance learning perspective
FRANK SHIU, CONNIE ZHENG AND MEI-CHIH HU

12 Heterogeneous professional identities as an intra-sectoral knowledge filter
DANIEL FESER AND TILL PROEGER

13 From knowledge to innovation: a review on the evolution of the absorptive capacity concept
DENNIS LYTH FREDERIKSEN AND ALEXANDER BREM

14 Knowledge spillovers and innovation spaces in Australia
PAUL K. COUCHMAN, ANDREW O’LOUGHLIN, IAN McLOUGHLIN AND VANESSA RATTEN

Conclusion

15 Future research directions for knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship
VANESSA RATTEN, LÉO-PAUL DANA AND JOÃO J. FERREIRA

João J. Ferreira is Associate Professor in Management at the University of Beira Interior and NECE Research Unit in Business Sciences, Portugal.

Leo-Paul Dana is Professor at Montpellier Business School, France.

Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Management and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia.