How Entrepreneurs do What they do

Edited by Maureen McKelvey, Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Associate Professor of Innovation Management, Center for Industrial Production, Aalborg University, Denmark

’Given the opportunity to teach a graduate course in entrepreneurship, I would give this book and its companion volume serious consideration in order to provide students with a well-articulated theoretical framework and a multitude of carefully described examples to illustrate and test the ideas of KIE theory.’

• Contents: Preface1. IntroductionMaureen McKelvey and Astrid Heidemann LassenPART I: TRANSVERSAL TECHNOLOGIES, ENGINEERING AND SOFTWARE2. How Tensions between Exploration and Exploitation Drive the Development Process of KIE: The Case of Sensor Inc.Astrid Heidemann Lassen3. Collaborative Strategies: How and Why Academic Spin-offs Interact with Engineering University CentersMaureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg, Olof Zaring, Jens Laage-Hellman and Stefan Szücs4. Interaction as a Strategy in Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship: The Case of an ERP Software CompanyOlof Zaring5. Managing International Expansion in a KIE Venture: Going Global in Alpha CompositesDmitrij Slepniov and Brian Vejrum Waehrens6. The Nexus between Technology, Organizational and Market Development: The Case of NanoSpace Inc.Astrid Heidemann Lassen PART II: LIFESTYLE TECHNOLOGIES7. Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship from Firm Exit in a High-tech Cluster: The Case of the Wireless Communications Cluster in Aalborg, DenmarkChristian Richter Østergaard and Eunkyung Park8. Entrepreneurial Exploitation of Creative Destruction and the Ambiguity of Knowledge in the Emerging Field of Digital AdvertisingOskar Broberg, Ann-Sofie Axelsson and Gustav Sjöblom9. Knowledge Reallocation and Challenges for KIE: The Case of the European Roller Coaster IndustryBram Timmermans, Rudi Bekkers and Luca Bordoli PART III: HUMAN HEALTH CARE AND FOOD10. How Cross-fertilization of High-tech and Low-tech Sectors Creates Innovative Opportunities: The Case of the Wearable ElectrocardiogramAlexandra Rosa, Ricardo Mamede and Manuel Mira Godinho 11. Building Collaborative Network Relationships: The Case of a Corporate Spin-off in the Medical Technology IndustryJens Laage-Hellman12. Collaborative Research in Innovative Food: An Example of Renewing a Traditional Low-tech IndustryMaureen McKelvey, Daniel Ljungberg and Jens Laage-Hellman 13. Financing and Privatizing a Visionary Research Endeavour in Proteonomics: The Case of ProSci in AustraliaJohan Brink and Maureen McKelvey14. Business Models in Big Data in China: Designing New Opportunities through Sequencing and BioinformaticsYanmei Zhu and Maureen McKelvey15. Further Developing the IdeasMaureen McKelvey and Astrid Heidemann Lassen Index