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Innovation and entrepreneurship

In: The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation

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  • Edward J. Malecki
  • Ben Spigel

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We follow Schumpeter in attributing to entrepreneurs the spark to bring new combinations to market by combining knowledge, perceived opportunity, and other resources to form new firms. A link between innovation and entrepreneurship was first seen in new firms exploiting new technologies in high-technology regions. This context set the tone for research, which we explore in this chapter. We identify four topics: entrepreneurship in high-tech contexts, spinoffs from university research, the local/regional ecosystem or innovation system, and flows of knowledge within social and professional networks. Underlying these four attributes of high-tech innovation are cultural outlooks and orientations. Without an understanding of how culture influences entrepreneurial and innovative activities, it is difficult to study their relationship with the cultural contexts in which they take place. Building on a nexus-based view of innovation and entrepreneurship, we argue that culture is best understood as a process through which actors interpret the world around them and which can either encourage or discourage entrepreneurial and innovative activity.

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  • Edward J. Malecki & Ben Spigel, 2017. "Innovation and entrepreneurship," Chapters, in: Harald Bathelt & Patrick Cohendet & Sebastian Henn & Laurent Simon (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation, chapter 38, pages 625-637, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Mia Maric & Mladen Subotic & Branislav Dudic & Boban Melovic & Natasa Brankovic & Stevan Milisavljevic, 2021. "Evaluating Relations between Originality, Efficiency, Conformism and Entrepreneurial Potential of Students in a Fast Changing Business Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-14, February.
    2. Dimos Chatzinikolaou & Charis Vlados, 2019. "Schumpeter, Neo-Schumpeterianism, and Stra.Tech.Man Evolution of the Firm," Issues in Economics and Business, Macrothink Institute, vol. 5(2), pages 80-102, December.
    3. Olena Khlystova & Yelena Kalyuzhnova, 2023. "The impact of the creative industries and digitalization on regional resilience and productive entrepreneurship," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 48(5), pages 1654-1695, October.

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