... venture. Overall, an effervescent environment emerged, in which doctoral students are becoming increasingly aware of their entrepreneurial potential and are exploring new career paths outside academia. Entrepreneurial university Knowledge transfer Academic entrepreneurship Doctoral students...

...) interacts with knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial behaviour in a conflict Sub-Saharan African context. In-depth telephone interviews of 20 participants who benefited from EE knowledge transfer were used to document and analyse the effect of EE on their behaviours as micro-entrepreneurs...

.... Practical implications Top management and directors at a consortium level need to pay careful attention to the social context within which knowledge transfer efforts occur. Resources exchanged and the absorptive capacity developed through social interactions must be designed to increase knowledge flows...

... as well as non‐suppliers. Findings The study shows how the existence of knowledge transfer influences productivity through the productive linkage established with local suppliers and their hiring of MNC former managers. Direct local suppliers experience higher productivity than do local suppliers from...

... the basis for a tripartite model of knowledge transfer. Through conducting in‐depth interviews, data are collected on each aspect of the model to map the structure of personal business networks, to provide qualitative data on the type of relationships that exist within these and to whom knowledge has been...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Succession planning Human resource management Knowledge transfer Owner‐managers Small enterprises United Kingdom This paper explores the concept of succession planning in small, growing firms in Wales. Small firms play an important role...

... of the potential for action by journal editors, academic groups and policy makers. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Idea generation Knowledge transfer Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises ...

... theorising and research would be stronger, achieving closer relations with other social science disciplines. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Idea generation Knowledge transfer Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises National cultures ...