U. Fueglistaller / T. Volery / W. Weber (Hrsg./Eds.):

Innovation, Competitiveness, Growth and Tradition in SMEs
Papers presented to the Rencontres de St-Gall 2008
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Rencontres de St-Gall 2008
September 1–3 2008, St.Gallen


Innovation, Competitiveness, Growth and Tradition
in SMEs

Rencontres 2008: Teilnehmerverzeichnis / List of participants download PDF (196KB)
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Topic A:
Entrepreneurship Education

Carmine Bianchi/Graham Winch
Understanding the Dynamics of ‘Abnormal’ Small Firm Growth

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Alain Fayolle/Olivier Basso/Erno Tornikoski
The Act of New Venture Creation: Exploratory Elements of an Explanation

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Marc Gruber/John C. Dencker/Sonali K. Shah
Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Drivers of Job Creation in New Firms
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Tomoyo Kazumi
Desirable model for Japanese-style business incubators based on progressive practice

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Frank W. Kellermanns/Erick P.C. Chang/James J. Chrisman
The Relationship Between Prior and Subsequent New Venture Creation in the United States: A County Level Analysis

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Lazlo Szerb
The connection between innovation and business growth in the Hungarian SME sector
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Simon Tam
The Transactional Imagination: Founder entrepreneur, micro-foundations and macro-structures
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Emiko Tsuyuki
How public research institutes can create new startups? A case study on Innovation center for startups; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan

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Topic B:
Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, SME and Family Business Research

Louis Jacques Filion
Entrepreneurial Representations, Self-Space and Metanoia
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Urs Fueglistaller/Thomas Schrettle
Service Competence and Firm Performance – towards a Concept for Strategic Differentiation for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
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Katsuyuki Kamei
Tradition and Innovation in Japanese Family SME
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Josef Mugler/Matthias Fink
Kritik und Perspektiven der Entrepreneurshipforschung – Ein Irrgarten mit Auswegen? (Critique and perspectives of entrepreneurship research – a maze with exit routes?)
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J. Hanns Pichler
Schumpeter: «Prophet of Innovation»
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Dietmar Rössl/Sascha Kraus/Matthias Fink
Innovationen in Familienunternehmen (Innovation in Family Businesses)
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Karl-Heinz Schmidt
Tradition und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der KMU (Tradition and Economic Development in SMEs)
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Jose Mª Veciana
Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Its Interrelations and Impact on Economic Growth and Development in the Knowledge Society
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Thierry Volery/Katherine Gundolf
Entwicklungen in der Entrepreneurship- und KMU-Forschung : Eine Artikelanalyse von 1997 bis 2006 (Developments in Entrepreneurship and SME Research: A literature analysis from 1997 to 2006)
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Late arrival
Gerald E. Hills/Claes M. Hultman

Some Theoretical Foundations of Entrepreneurial Marketing
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Topic C:
Policies for Innovation, Competitiveness and Growth

Jan Degadt
Innovation: concept, measurability, policy. The case of Belgium
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Dirk Deschoolmeester/Edgar Izquierdo
What Entrepreneurial Competencies should be emphasized in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education at the Undergraduate Level?
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Norbert Kailer/Monika Thum-Kraft
Innovation in Klein- und Mittelbetrieben durch Kooperation mit Hochschulen im Weiterbildungsbereich (Innovation in SMEs through cooperation with universities in the field of competency development and further training)
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Christoph Mueller
The real impact of reducing administrative burdens from the enterprises’ and the economy’s point of view – an explorative concept
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Ossi Pesämaa/Johan Klaesson/Antti Haahti
Board network characteristics and company performance in Sweden: The case of Gnosjö companies and their board members in southern Sweden
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(184KB)
Hans Jobst Pleitner
Bürokratiebelastung und KMU (Red tape and SMEs)
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(148KB)
Michael T. Schaper/Anne Clear/Geoff Baker
Is There A Correlation Between Competition Policy and Entrepreneurship?
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(104KB)
Mitsuru Tanaka
Technological Innovation and SMEs in Japan
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(972KB)
David Watkins
Engaging Entrepreneurs in Formulating Research and Innovation Policy at the European Level
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(196KB)
Friederike Welter et al.
How to make regions (more) innovative
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(148KB)
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Topic D:
Innovation Management in SMEs

Robert Blackburn/Clifford Conway
Clusters in the New Media Industry: Relevant Model or Artifact?
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Brian Gibson/Dianne Wingham/Ramraini Ali Hassan
Innovation, Technology and Commercialisation in an SME Environment
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Werner Havenga
Managing Human Capital to ensure Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Competitiveness
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Per-Anders Havnes/Jon Olav Pedersen/Michael Ricke
Employment of External Resources in Innovation Processes
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Asko Miettinen
How small software companies innovate: a regional look from Finland
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Herbert Neubauer
Indikatoren des Innovationserfolges im Klein- und Mittelbetrieb (Indicators of successful innovations in small and medium sized enterprises – dimensions and their correlation)
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Wee-Liang Tan/So-Jin Yoo
Organizational Learning Platform and New Product Development
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Cornelia Zanger/Sandra Kaminski
Kooperative Markenführung in regionalen KMU-Clustern
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Rico Baldegger
The Internationalization Behavior of Mature Firms – A Case Study of Born-again Global Firms
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Hermann Frank/Manfred Lueger/Christian Korunka
Innovationskontext und Innovationslogik von zwei Kleinunternehmen – eine qualitative Analyse (Innovation context and logic in two SMEs – a qualitative analysis)
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Ysabel Nauwelaertsa/Frederik Van Asschea/Ilke Van Beveren
Innovation Profile of the Flemish Creative SMEs
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Louis Raymond/Josée St-Pierre/Marie Marchand
In search of performance for manufacturing SMEs: A taxonomical approach
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Sophie Reboud/Tim Mazzarol/Thierry Volery
The French National Innovation System: An International Comparison of Small Firms
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Thierry Volery
The Strategic Management of Innovation in SMEs: A Multiple Case Study Approach in Switzerland
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Late arrival
Leona Achtenhagen

On the way to continuous growth – the role of entrepreneurial management
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