Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success

Uwe Cantner, Maximilian Goethner, Andreas Meder

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationJena
PublisherFriedrich Schiller Universitaet
Number of pages21
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameJena Economic Research Papers
PublisherFriedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
No.2007-052
ISSN (Print)1864-7057

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    • Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success

      Cantner, U., Goethner, M. & Meder, A., 2010, Entrepreneurship and Culture. Freytag, A. & Thurik, R. (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p. 79-94 16 p.

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