Entrepreneurial growth, value creation and new technologies

The Journal of Technology Transfer - Tập 48 - Trang 1535-1551 - 2023
David B. Audretsch1, Maksim Belitski2,3,4, Rosa Caiazza5, Farzana Chowdhury6, Matthias Menter7
1School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
2College of Business, Loyola University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA
3ICD Business School, IGS-Groupe, Paris, France
4University of Reading Henley Business School, Reading, UK
5Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy
6Durham University Business School, Durham, UK
7Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Tóm tắt

A robust literature has provided compelling evidence showing how digital transformation impacts entrepreneurship activity. However, only a paucity of research has linked adoption of new technologies to innovation, value creation, knowledge transfer and performance across different stages of the entrepreneurial growth continuum. This special issue fills this gap in the literature by focusing on if, how and why adoption of digital technologies and embeddedness in the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem enhances innovative activity and firm performance during the early and later stages of market entry. In particular, this special issue examines how digital transformation facilitates entrepreneurial, innovation, and social outputs along the entrepreneurial journey as well as why and how digital technologies may facilitate the interaction between economic agents and re-combination of internal resources and capabilities with those available externally. In doing so, this special issue unpacks a nuanced relationship between the diversity of new technologies and knowledge, their suitability and applicability for entrepreneurship and at different growth stages. This study offers policy implications and future research roadmap.

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