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										|  | U. Fueglistaller / T. Volery / W. Weber (Hrsg./Eds.): 
 Innovation, Competitiveness, Growth and Tradition in SMEs
 Papers presented to the Rencontres de St-Gall 2008
 Beiträge zu den Rencontres de St-Gall 2008, KMU-Verlag HSG, 686 S. CHF 68.– (46 €)
 
 ISBN 10: 3-906541-26-6
 ISBN-13: 978-3-906541-26-6
 
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							| Rencontres de St-Gall 2008 September 1–3 2008, St.Gallen
 
 Innovation, Competitiveness, Growth and Tradition
 in SMEs
 
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							| Rencontres 2008: Teilnehmerverzeichnis / List of participants | download PDF (196KB) | 
						
							| Pictures from Rencontres 2008 (St.Gallen) (Flash-Plugin required)
 
 Gallery_01 Photos by Webers
 Gallery_02 Photos by Fueglistallers
 Gallery_03 Photos by F.Welter
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							| Topic A:
 Entrepreneurship Education
 
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							| 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
 
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							| 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
 
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							| 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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						  | Hans Jobst Pleitner Bürokratiebelastung und KMU (Red tape and SMEs)
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						  | Michael T. Schaper/Anne Clear/Geoff Baker Is There A Correlation Between Competition Policy and Entrepreneurship?
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						  | Mitsuru Tanaka Technological Innovation and SMEs in Japan
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						  | David Watkins Engaging Entrepreneurs in Formulating Research and Innovation Policy at the European Level
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						  | Friederike Welter et al. How to make regions (more) innovative
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							| Topic D:
 Innovation Management in SMEs
 
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							| 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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