Knowledge Spillover-based Strategic Entrepreneurship

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 Spilovers as an Additional Process to Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Turkey (Burcu Fazlioglu and Basak Dalgiç) 4. Relational Spillovers and Knowledge Creation Across European Regions: Are There Differences Across R&D Institutional Sectors? (Daniela Di Cagno, Andrea Fabriz, Valentina Meliciani and Wanzenböck Iris) 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.