ABSTRACT
Knowledge is increasingly seen as vital for economic growth and societal development, including a specific focus upon the role of technological knowledge in stimulating certain types of entrepreneurship. 1 This book, the AEGIS project and Malerba and McKelvey (2011, and see Chapter 2 of this volume) go further. A key issue here is that knowledge intensive entrepreneurial (KIE) ventures can exist in many different sectors, drawing upon different types of opportunities and knowledge, and how those dynamics occur.
