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Research Policy Special Issue Call for Paper

  • 1.  Research Policy Special Issue Call for Paper

    Posted 03-24-2018 05:05
    Could you please circulate this through TIM digest?
    many thanks
    Tommaso

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    Research Policy Special Issue Call for Paper
    "Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives: heterogeneity, impact and implications"

    Innovation policy increasingly emphasizes the role of start-ups in bringing innovations to the market and entrepreneurship policies are becoming more selective by targeting more innovative start-ups rather than new firms in general. This convergent development is evident by the number of Startup Acts, which have been issued worldwide to sustain the creation and the growth of innovative start-ups. This large and heterogeneous set of new initiatives promoting innovative start-ups offers the opportunity of some reflections, appraisal and refinements of the very nature of innovative entrepreneurship and related policies. National strategies in support of innovative start-ups are quite mixed and somehow experimental and there is still a lack of evidence on their effectiveness. This special issue seeks to stimulate novel, interdisciplinary, theoretically- and empirically-sound scientific research on innovative start-ups, on policies for innovative start-ups and on the impact of such policies. By recognizing and deepening our knowledge about the heterogeneity of innovative start-ups in different institutional contexts, we aim at better understanding the idiosyncratic nature of such firm and, in turn, which policy actions are more effective in a given context, and why.

    Guest Editors

    David B. Audretsch
    Institute for Development Strategies
    Indiana University

    Alessandra Colombelli
    Department of Management and Production Engineering and
    EIC – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre
    Politecnico di Torino

    Luca Grilli
    Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
    Politecnico di Milano

    Tommaso Minola
    Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering and
    CYFE – Center for Young and Family Enterprise
    University of Bergamo

    Einar Rasmussen
    Division of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    Nord University Business School

    The deadline for submitting papers is June 1, 2018.

    The full Call for Paper is available here:
    https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-policy/call-for-papers/innovative-start-ups-and-policy-initiatives-heterogeneity-im

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    Tommaso Minola, PhD
    Director
    CYFE (Center for Young and Family Enterprise)
    University of Bergamo, Italy
    www.unibg.it/pers/?tommaso.minola
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