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Title

Entrepreneurial capacity and the new technology-based small firm

Author(s)

Yencken, John;  Gillin, Murray

Abstract

The development of a new technology small firm, such as a spin-off from a university or other public research provider, proceeds through a number of phases. The paper first discusses the concept of requisite holism as applied to the entrepreneurship involved in technological innovation through New Technology-based Small Firms. The various players involved in these various phases include the original “inventor”, technology transfer office staff, the technology champion, the new CEO or surrogate entrepreneur and the first investor(s). Each of these brings to the new venture specific and differing knowledge resources that are the key elements of the Penrosian bundle of resources that result in competitive advantage. In this paper the data from case studies of the early phases of development of Australian university spin-off companies have been used to explore the relevance of such knowledge resources as the entrepreneurial capacity of the new venture. This analysis supports the definition of entrepreneurial capacity as a set of disparate knowledge resources.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Source

Small enterprise research : the journal of SEAANZ, Vol. 12, no. 1 (2004), pp. 30-44

Publication year

2004

Publisher

Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand

Format

pp. 30-44

ISSN

1321-5906

Publisher URL

Small enterprise research : the journal of SEAANZ

Publisher URL

http://www.seaanz.asn.au/content/sercontents/contentsindex.asp

Copyright

© 2004 Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand.

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