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5. Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Innovative Success

verfasst von : Uwe Cantner, Maximilian Goethner, Andreas Meder

Erschienen in: Entrepreneurship and Culture

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This paper is concerned with the relationship between innovative success of entrepreneurs and their prior knowledge at the stage of firm formation. We distinguish between different kinds of experience an entrepreneur can possess and find evidence that the innovative success subsequent to firm formation is enhanced by entrepreneur’s prior technological knowledge but not by prior market and organizational knowledge. Moreover, we find that prior technological knowledge gathered through embeddedness within a research community has an additionally positive influence on post start-up innovative success. This is a first hint towards the importance of collective innovation activities.

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Titel: Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Innovative Success
verfasst von: Uwe Cantner
Maximilian Goethner
Andreas Meder
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch: Entrepreneurship and Culture
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-87909-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-540-87910-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87910-7_5

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