Fast growing firms in a slow growth economy institutional conditions for innovation /

Europe needs more innovative companies that grow quickly and end up big. This book examines SME growth, innovation and success, to suggest that fast growing firms could offer a major contribution to the recovery of a European economy. The contributors examine 11 case studies from Italian firms, brea...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Other Authors: Visintin, Francesca., Pittino, Daniel.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c. 2016.
Subjects:
Small business > Case studies.
Entrepreneurship.
Electronic books.
Online Access:https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781785367106/9781785367106.xml
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: innovation beyond national systems fragility: institutional bricolage for SMEs growth / D. Lauto G. Pittino and F. Visintin
  • Part I the context
  • 2. Entrepreneurship and technological clusters. the influence of contextual factors on the birth and growth of new businesses / T. Pucci and L. Zanni
  • 3. Tie formation through venture concept development in emerging innovative start-ups / A. Comacchio, S. Bonesso and V. Finotto
  • 4. Micro-context and institutional entrepreneurship: multiple case studies and innovative start-ups / D. Giacomini, C. Muzzi, S. Albertini
  • Part II the actors
  • 5. Innovative start-ups and growth factors / G. Antonelli, A. Berni and S. Consiglio
  • 6. Family firms as the incubators of new ventures: a transgenerational perspective / M. Brumana, T. Minola, L. Cassia, D. Gamba and P. Pressiani
  • 7. Evolution of university spinoffs' business model. / C.e. De Marco and A. Piccaluga
  • 8. 'reassembling the social', in entrepreneurial innovation and academic entrepreneurship studies: the 'amphibious scientists' phenomenon / F. Crisci and P.a.m. Mazzurana
  • Part III the strategy
  • 9. Learning from critical internationalisation events. insights from two fast growing Italian SMEs / C. Dossena, A. Francesconi, G. Magnani, A. Onetti, A. Pisoni, M. Talaia and A. Zucchella
  • 10. Spin-offs and social capital: contingent social networking towards growth / B. Masiello, F. Izzo, M. Pezzillo Iacono and M. Martinez
  • 11. Business model evolution and the drivers of the growth of high-tech new ventures / A. Tracogna, G. Bortoluzzi and B. Balboni
  • 12. Quasi-successful and quasi-failing academic spin-offs: the role of technological and commercial alliances / P. Gubitta, A. Tognazzo, D. Campagnolo and M. Gianecchini.

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