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Competitiveness in new technology-based firms: between local high-tech clusters and global technological markets

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  • Luca Dezi
  • Francesco Schiavone
  • Federico Gamma

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This paper adopts a resource-based view (RBV) and analyses what conditions support the local and international competitiveness of small companies in both their local high-tech clusters (HCs) and global markets. The question we are trying to address in this paper is therefore: what makes the resources in a new technology-based firm (NTBF) sources of competitive advantages both within its local industrial network and on global markets? We argue that NTBF resources (especially those related to knowledge and expertise of firms) are likely to achieve both goals solely if they are both locally homogeneous and globally heterogeneous. Resources that fail to fulfil these two conditions can only be effective in one (or maybe neither) of these two external environments.

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  • Luca Dezi & Francesco Schiavone & Federico Gamma, 2009. "Competitiveness in new technology-based firms: between local high-tech clusters and global technological markets," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(4), pages 412-426.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:3:y:2009:i:4:p:412-426
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    1. González-Cruz, Tomás & Clemente, Jose Antonio & Camisón-Haba, Sergio, 2018. "Which Factors Favour Becoming a Technology-Based & Highly Innovative Firm? The Role of Knowledge, Technological and Managerial Capabilities, and Entrepreneurs´ Education Background," Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (2018), Split, Croatia, in: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Split, Croatia, 6-8 September 2018, pages 494-508, IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, Zagreb.

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