Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Innovative Success

Uwe Cantner (), Maximilian Goethner and Andreas Meder
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maximilian Göthner

Chapter Chapter 5 in Entrepreneurship and Culture, 2010, pp 79-94 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Prior Knowledge; Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Venture Creation; Firm Formation; Correct Forecast (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87910-7_5

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