...-driven motives of female entrepreneurs. The authors have employed purposeful sampling to select cases. The authors investigated the motivations of 45 female entrepreneurs in Norway (12), Russia (21) and Ukraine (12). Semi-structured interviews were used to collect primary data. The authors have also...

.... Learning Co-production Norway Entrepreneurship Corporate incubator In a co-production perspective, entrepreneurs do not passively receive business advice based on predefined expert knowledge. Rather, when it comes to learning in the context of entrepreneurship incubator managers...

...‐to‐technology, lawyer‐to‐lawyer, lawyer‐to‐information and lawyer‐to‐application, respectively. An exploratory empirical study is carried out in law firms in Norway to determine their stage of KMT. Findings Most surveyed law firms are at the third stage of what‐they‐know systems with lawyer‐to‐information...

...Truls Erikson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the strategic nature of formal seed capital in Norway as opposed to equally sized venture capital firms. Design/methodology/approach As the population of Norwegian seed capital firms is embedded in this study, a differential...

... services Individual behaviour Business planning Social audit Venture capital Norway Role as facilitator for further finance. Roar stresses the importance of his regional networks: … this means that it is easy for me to establish contact between the venture and the bank...

... (Wheelock et al., 1999), also makes it an appropriate unit of analysis when studying the process of starting a new business. The data was obtained from 16 in‐depth interviews with farmers in two rural regions in Norway. Similar to most European countries, there have been great changes...

.... Suggested policy measures for the government to improve global competitiveness in transitional industries are outlined. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Resource management Food industry Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Marketing strategy Norway Several industries experience significant...