Local and international networks in small firm internationalization: cases from the Rhône-Alpes medical technology regional cluster

Andersson, Svante; Evers, Natasha; Griot, Clemence

doi:10.1080/08985626.2013.847975

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“…In line with Andersson et al (2013), this study confirms that actors with solid bases and networks in large incumbent firms become important entrepreneurial drivers at a certain critical stage, essentially transforming the venture from a research and development modus to a marketing modus. Their experience in regulatory procedures, sophisticated product development, broad mobilizations of resources, activities, actors and competencies, and on raising the necessary financial resources significantly accelerates the process.…”

Section: Understanding Internationalization Processessupporting

confidence: 61%

Internationalization of an academic invention through successive science-business networks: The case of TAVI

Михайлова

Olsen

2016

J Int Entrep

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This paper explores and discusses the internationalization of a new medical technology that emerged out of a Danish university hospital. While the particular invention took place in the periphery of the international medical network, the new venture circulated to the most competent and influential international science-business networks in order to mobilize the resources and competencies required to develop the technology and make a breakthrough into the market. The study demonstrates that such an innovation IntroductionThis article is an empirically oriented paper addressing interactions and activities in the processes that brought a radically new medical technology from invention to international medical markets. As such, the case describes a typical Born Global (BG) invention and business development process. It addresses the roles of academic, institutional and business networks through the innovation process, emphasizing how the venture moved across are also several recent calls for studies to assess factors that can either facilitate or inhibit the development of academic entrepreneurship into successful international businesses and to explore such approaches to explain it (Peiris et al. 2012;Siegel and Wright 2015).We perceive that the core issue raised by the emergence of rapidly internationalizing and scaling of the business is to understand how they apparently circumvent the time and capacity building constraints of the learning dependent process that is core to the early internationalization theory. How can these small firms internationalize so fast if they do not possess the capabilities required? There has accordingly been a pressing need to examine Recently scholars have contended the phenomena of rapid internationalization by studying BGs beyond the lifespan of the legal entity. Several studies have claimed that the pre-founding process is significantly extended, therefore, increase the period without international activities (Hewerdine and Welch 2013;Laurell et al. 2013).At the same time, scholars emphasize the role of the pre-founding period of newly established firms where the entrepreneurs build their skills and experiences and build professional/personal networks. Some studies have in particular pointed at the networking activities in pre-founding periods as a critical factor Coviello 2006;Madsen and Servais 1997;Zahra 2005). However, there is still the question of how, after obtaining such pre-expansion capacity, founders of technology-based INVs/BGs manage to govern, coordinate

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Section: Understanding Internationalization Processessupporting

confidence: 61%

Internationalization of an academic invention through successive science-business networks: The case of TAVI

Михайлова

Olsen

2016

J Int Entrep

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“…The location of the network tie can influence the enterprise's internationalization efforts (Andersson, Evers, and Griot 2013;Boehe 2013;Milanov and Fernhaber 2014). Network ties may be distinguished into domestic or international ties, yet much of the extant literature covers solely international network ties (Andersson, Evers, and Griot 2013;Milanov and Fernhaber 2014).…”

Section: Locality Of Network Tiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Network ties may be distinguished into domestic or international ties, yet much of the extant literature covers solely international network ties (Andersson, Evers, and Griot 2013;Milanov and Fernhaber 2014). The enterprise's domestic network ties that have top management international experience and partnerships in foreign markets provide a foundation for the enterprise to gain knowledge about internationalization (Andersson, Evers, and Griot 2013;Milanov and Fernhaber 2014).…”

Section: Locality Of Network Tiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network embeddedness in the internationalization of biotechnology entrepreneurs

Leppäaho

Chetty

Dimitratos

2017

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This study investigates how entrepreneurs of biotech enterprises embed in domestic and international networks so as to internationalize. We advance a contextual framework of embeddedness of internationalizing entrepreneurs, providing a contribution (i) by synthesizing and applying existing conceptual insights from the networking literature to provide a more culturally sensitive view of getting embedded for international entrepreneurship in the biotech industry and (ii) by adding insights into the practices and (micro)processes of how and in what ways embeddedness integrates with the internationalization of biotech entrepreneurs. Our study involves six entrepreneurs from Canada, Finland, and New Zealand. Context-specific embeddedness was studied by exploring the (i) type, (ii) strength, (iii) locality, and (iv) importance of the international and national network ties among internationalizing entrepreneurs. We found differences in relation to the locality of universities and research institutes, role and type of financiers, and customer focus in internationalization. For instance, while customers were central to the embeddedness of Canadian and New Zealand entrepreneurs, Finnish entrepreneurs had no focus on their customers, but acted solely through sales channels and partners. The customer focus of New Zealand entrepreneurs was mainly international, whereas it was domestic in the case of Canadian entrepreneurs.

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“…Andersson, Evers, and Griot (2013) find positive effects of cluster reputation on SMEs. The attractiveness of a region and its reputation in general reduce the perceived risk of dealing with little-known SMEs in the eyes of foreign investors or cooperation partners.…”

Section: Clusters As Eco-systems For Internationalizationmentioning

confidence: 86%

Fostering place-based innovation and internationalization – the new turn in German technology policy

Dohse

Fornahl

Vehrke

2018

European Planning Studies

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Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a region-oriented and competition-based R&D policy. Currently, a new policy experiment, the InterClust contest, is under way, trying to simultaneously foster place-based innovation, R&D internationalization and the internationalization of innovative places. The current paper analyses the new policy, relating it to the recent literatures on heterogeneous firms and on cluster-life cycles, and presents results from a firm survey performed in 21 winner regions of InterClust. Findings show that the new funding scheme takes insights from recent theoretical developments into account and addresses important impediments to firm and cluster internationalization. Although it is too early for an overall assessment, it is argued that the long-term impact will critically depend on the inflow of heterogeneous knowledge and the strength of intra-regional mobilization effects. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Local and international networks in small firm internationalization: cases from the Rhône-Alpes medical technology regional cluster

Cited by 93 publications

References 75 publications

Internationalization of an academic invention through successive science-business networks: The case of TAVI

Internationalization of an academic invention through successive science-business networks: The case of TAVI

Network embeddedness in the internationalization of biotechnology entrepreneurs

Fostering place-based innovation and internationalization – the new turn in German technology policy

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