..., such as IT, require in order to develop is innovation and entrepreneurial growth within existing organisations, as well as the creation of new organisations and organisational forms. In order for a firm to achieve entrepreneurship it must have within its human resources people with the skills and abilities to act...

... to develop, renew, and/or abandon its competencies. Cohen and Levinthal (1990) identify two types of dynamic capacities that favour the quality and intensity of a transfer: the capacities for absorption and transmission. The capacity to absorb partners depends not only on the knowledge and competencies...