Design practices for strategic innovation in start-ups

Knowledge Base of Industrial Cluster and Start-ups’ Innovation Performance

This study explores the impact of knowledge stock and knowledge centrality, which are the two main characteristics of innovative start-ups’ entry technologies in the local knowledge base, on firms’ technological innovation and diversification. It tests the hypotheses with patent and firmlevel data of innovative start-ups in Shanghai Information Communication Technology cluster from 1985 to 2009...

Digital Storytelling for Start-Ups: A Canadian MOOC Design Experience

The four-week Business Start-up Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the first MOOC designed at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Canada. This work in progress paper discusses the author’s experience designing the course through digital storytelling in partnership with seven successful Canadian entrepreneurs using powerful digital tools, including 2D whiteboard video...

Can start-ups finish up?

n this issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Xu et al present findings from a search of US patents related to bare-metal coronary stents in an effort to gain insight on how medical device innovation starts and how policies in the United States might help to promote more innovation. 1 Of the 245 patents identified by their search strategy for the years 1984 to 1994, the auth...

Building and Managing Strategic Alliances in Technology-Driven Start-Ups: A Critical Review of Literature

Innovation in Transition: a Comparison of the Innovation Potential of Incumbent Firms and Innovative Start-ups in the Western Balkans

Innovation can play an important role in helping transition economies accelerate their development towards a competitive market economy. Alternative theoretical perspectives, however, suggest contrasting views of the innovative potential of transition economies, and the relative importance of innovation in existing and new firms. Here, we draw on the knowledge spillovers model of entrepreneursh...