Below you can download all Full Papers presented at NCSB Stockholm May 11-13 2006. The papers are listed according to the different conference tracks and place in the programme.
Track: The Role of entrepreneurship and innovation in regional/societal development Chair: Hans Landström
• "Change in professional work identity - Entrepreneurs in the social and health care sector in Finland" - Johanna Österberg >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Community entrepreneurship within the cultural sector - The interaction between the community entrepreneurs and the local community in new cultural ventures" - Ingebjørg K Vestrum & Odd Jarl Borch >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "New Technology-Based Firms creation and growth: the case of the Basque Country" - Kristina Zabala >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurs, clusters and innovation systems in contexts of local/metropolitan/regional development Chair: Bengt Johannisson
• "Innovation beyond traditional contexts - lessons from the creation of Dalhalla" - Per Frankelius >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "SME alliance motives and knowledge modes" - Johan Johansson & Håkan Ylinenpää >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Creating and maintaining trust in a female business network" - Marianne Sökjer-Petersen & Jenny Thorssell >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Corporate entrepreneurship/managing entrepreneurship in organisational contexts Chair: Elisabeth Sundin
• "Management team in the background of the portfolio entrepreneurship and as a management tool of firm portfolio" - Jari Huovinen & Sanna Tihula >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Criteria and timing of decision -making in the commercialization process of innovations: perspectives of small technology firm"- Jarkko Pellikka, Jani Pellikka & Miika Kajanus >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Drivers and contraits of SMEs in Finnish Environmental Industry - Astudy of an environmental cluster in Oulu region" - Ulla Lehtinen, KariPoikela & Eva Pongrácz >> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Internationalization and cross-cultural entrepreneurship Chair: Anders W Johansson
• "Examining the Notion of Entrepreneurial Culture in Europe" - Renaud Redien-Collot >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Can entrepreneurship be learnt by Entrepreneurship training and in Schools?" - Anders Olofsson >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "At the Intersection of Entrepreneurship Education Policy and Practice - On conflicts, tensions and closures..." - Karin Berglund & Carina Holmgren >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Open Chair: Daniel Hjorth
• "Do Publicly Funded Support Programmes Directed to New Knowledge-Based Ventures Add Value?" - Charlotte Norrman & Lars Bager-Sjögren >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: The role of entrepreneurship and innovation in regional/societal development Chair: Gry Alsos
• "University spin-off processes: creating knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Estonia" - Janita Andrijevskaja, Tõnis Mets & Urmas Varblane >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Community entrepreneurship and social capital as a means to foster new business opportunities - a case study from rural Norway" - Lars Rønning & Elisabet Ljunggren >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Characteristics of Small and Medium Enterprises in Cambodia" - Meas, Wat Ho >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurs, clusters and innovation systems in contexts of local/metropolitan/regional development Chair: Bengt Johannisson
• "Regional industrial transformation and knowledge-intensive clustering: the case of the northern Savo region in Finland" - Miika Varis, Jarkko Pellikka & Hannu Littunen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Social capital and creation of network of business know-how in Eastern Finland" - Markku Virtanen & Tomi Heimonen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Formal and informal ways of knowledge transfer for growth ventures- Case of V2C" - Jussi Okkonen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurship and the educational system; learning and entrepreneurship Chair: Jarna Heinonen
• "Spin-off Venture Creation in a University context - an entrepreneurial process view" - Einar Rasmussen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "A field of paradoxes? Some critical remarks on educational issues in entrepreneurship education" - Jörgen From >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Learning by grafting knowledge - Report from an ongoing case study in an "innovation centre"" - Are Branstad >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Exploring the connections betweenR&Dactivity, innovation and growth of technology firms" - Ulla Hytti & Pekka Stenholm >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurs, clusters and innovation systems in contexts of local/metropolitan/regional development Chair: tba
• "Pre-incubation in rural and sparsely populated area. Framework for creating the model for pilot testing" - Mari Ahonen & Eelis Kokko >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Regional development, entrepreneurial activity and the role of intangible infrastructure" - Jennie Elfving, Malin Brännback & Alan Carsrud >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Gender theory in promoting small business entrepreneurship in a context of 'clusters' and 'innovation systems'- experiences from northern Sweden" - Malin Lindberg >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Corporate entrepreneurship/managing entrepreneurship in organisational contexts Chair: Elisabeth Sundin
• "Clarifying and extending the ambidexterity construct - entrepreneurial and preservative modes in strategic management" - Tobias Kollmann, Andreas Kuckertz & Christoph Stöckmann >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
"A conceptualization of entrepreneurs' role stress" - Joakim Wincent & Daniel Örtqvist >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Internationalization and cross-cultural entrepreneurship Chair: Staffan Gullander
• "Do environmental influences affect small firm value creation?" - Ruta Aidis & Arnis Sauka >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Reloading the internationalization stages models - Building a framework examining international growth" - Eriikka Paavilainen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Financing strategies, Resource Scarcity and globalization ofinternational new ventures" - Pirita Nakkalajarvi, Viveca Sasi & MikaGabrielsson >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurship and the educational system; learning and entrepreneurship Chair: Leif Lindmark
"Between a rock and a smooth space - the hypocrisy of a striated refuge" - Frederic Bill & Lena Olaison >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
"Learning To Become Entrepreneurial In Rural Finland - thecontroversial task of activating farmers" - Jarkko Pyysiäinen & Kari Mikko Vesala >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Youth enterprise experience and business start up intentions" - Gry A. Alsos, Espen J. Isaksen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Open Chair: Daniel Hjorth
• "Legitimacy, competence and social capital: leveraging personal and structural resources in women-led SMEs in Russia" - Tatiana Iakovleva & Jill Kickul >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Entrepreneurship Research: Towards a Domain Approach to Knowledge" - Barbara Cornelius, Hans Landström & Olle Persson >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Mediating creativity and imitation in entrepreneurship theory" - Anders W Johansson >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
May 13, 2006 Paper sessions 09.00-10.30
Track: The Role of entrepreneurship and innovation in regional/societal development Chair: Elisabeth Ljunggren
• "The location decision in the informal venture capital investments" -
Sofia Avdeitchikova >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development and Implications for SME Policy in Estonia" - Urve Venesaar and Piret Loomets >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurs, clusters and innovation systems in contexts of local/metropolitan/regional development Chair: Pontus Braunerhjelm
• "Bridging the functional and territorial rationales proposing a virtual integrating framework for regional dynamics" - Bengt Johannisson & Åsa Lindholm-Dahlstrand >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Cultural background, home country, national intelligence and self-employment rates among immigrants in Norway" - Evgueni Vinogradov & Lars Kolvereid >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Corporate entrepreneurship/managing entrepreneurship in organisational contexts Chair: Daniel Hjorth
• "Employment status and the business founding process, the case of Norway" - S. Bruyneel, M. Carreey & L. Peeters >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Farms' Additional Business Lines: How Are They Organised?" - Margit Torkko,
Harri Haapasalo, Ulla Lehtinen & Pekka Belt >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
Track: Entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurship and the educational system; learning and entrepreneurship Chair: Ulla Hytti
• "An entrepreneurial directed approach to training corporate entrepreneurship within University-level entrepreneurship studies" - Jarna Heinonen >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "Fostering front-end innovation process in SMEs, Evidence of Collaboration Between SMEs and University Students" - Helena Forsman >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
• "The resource acquisition process of student entrepreneurs" - Marie Löwegren >>> Download Paper (.pdf)
