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Lemarié, Stéphane; Mangematin, Vincent; Torre, André

doi:10.1023/a:1011197616151

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“…, 2023). Further, findings concur with Lemarié et al. (2001) by highlighting the role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in promoting the launch of new businesses, that is of unicorns in this case (e.g.…”

Section: Research Agendasupporting

confidence: 82%

“…In particular, scholars have found that certain geographical regions, such as Silicon Valley in the United States or Beijing in China, point to innovation clusters. These groups of businesses, which are geographically concentrated, provide an ecosystem that promotes the launch of new businesses and heightens competition (Lemari e et al, 2001), offering support infrastructure and an atmosphere that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing. Due to the clusters' proximity to major enterprises, academic institutions, and research centers, businesses established within them frequently expand more quickly than those established in other areas.…”

Section: Systematic Literature Review Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond myth: a systematic literature review on the emergence of unicorn firms

Giardino,

Delladio,

Baiocco

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis study aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive examination of the underlying factors enabling the emergence of unicorn firms. By addressing this research gap and offering an integrative framework, it seeks to support future research efforts in understanding this phenomenon and contribute to the academic debate around it.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a systematic literature review (SLR) approach and thematic analysis of articles retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases.FindingsThe study sheds light on internal characteristics, ranging from the entrepreneurial (human capital and knowledge) to firm-specific level (business model, corporate governance, resources) and external ones related to the funding factors (financial patterns, venture capitalists, firm evaluation) and the ecosystem (entrepreneurial and technology) around the phenomenon of unicorn firms.Originality/valueThis is the first systematic literature review on unicorns that offers insights into the internal and external factors driving the emergence of such firms, contributes to shed light on the main criticalities that blur their understanding and presents a research agenda for developing this field of research.

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Section: Research Agendasupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Systematic Literature Review Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond myth: a systematic literature review on the emergence of unicorn firms

Giardino,

Delladio,

Baiocco

et al. 2023

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“…Romijn and Albaladejo (2002) found that while the majority of their sample of firms (thirty‐three small software development and electronics manufacturing companies) were spin‐offs from a university or a former public laboratory, the need to be near a leading university was not a strong factor in location decisions. Audretsch (2001) came to similar conclusions regarding the spatial pull of the local university, and Audretsch and Feldman (1996) and Lemarié et al . (2001) found that SME–university local linkages are only of great consequence when the firm, and/or the overall industry, is young.…”

Section: The Specific Case Of Technology‐based Smessupporting

confidence: 73%

A spatial analysis of small‐ and medium‐sized information technology firms in Canada and the importance of local connections to institutions of higher education

Meyer

2006

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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As part of community/regional development policy, governments in Canada attempt to create conditions that stimulate the formation of high‐technology clusters and, in so doing, often encourage firm–university/college liaisons. Information technology (IT) is an important segment of the high‐technology sector, and small‐ and medium‐sized Canadian IT firms are disproportionately attracted to large metropolitan areas (with Toronto, Ottawa–Hull, Vancouver, Calgary, Montréal, Kitchener and Edmonton being the most noteworthy). A nearest neighbour analysis suggests that small‐ and medium‐sized IT firms are clustered within the metropolitan setting, and a nearest neighbour hierarchical spatial clustering technique demonstrates that intra‐urban IT agglomerations can be objectively identified. The linkages between small‐ and medium‐sized IT firms and higher education institutions are, on average, not strongly entrenched within Canada's IT culture, although many of these firms still connect with universities or colleges through co‐operative programs and other means of employee recruitment and via general networking with faculty members. Thus, governments may be able to support IT cluster formation by encouraging firm–university/college connections that centre on student participation.

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“…The ability of two firms to function together is contingent on whether their internal systems can be connected (Davenport, 2005;Lemarié et al, 2001). To this extent, similarity in organizational mechanisms ensures coordination and control of knowledge transactions, thereby reducing uncertainty and opportunism (Boschma, 2005;Heringa et al, 2014).…”

Section: Organizational Proximitymentioning

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Analysis of SMEs partner proximity preferences for process innovation

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This paper explores small and medium enterprises (SMEs) proximity preferences when selecting partners for collaborative process innovation. Drawing on a survey of 362 Danish SMEs, we address four partner proximity characteristics: geographic, cognitive, organizational, and social. The results show that SMEs prioritize geographic openness over regional clustering. Furthermore, to simultaneously facilitate collaboration and ensure innovation, firms tend to collaborate with partners that are characterized by cognitive similarity at a technological level and knowledge distance at a market level. Technological proximity is also found to be more relevant than social proximity when it comes to bridging the potential geographic and market distance between the collaborative partners. Finally, the results indicate that the tendency of organizational proximity to facilitate informal interactions with partners enhances process innovation only at two of four process innovation levels. Thus, the results highlight the fact that the value of partner proximity characteristics change with the level of process innovation considered.

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Cited by 91 publications

References 15 publications

Beyond myth: a systematic literature review on the emergence of unicorn firms

Beyond myth: a systematic literature review on the emergence of unicorn firms

A spatial analysis of small‐ and medium‐sized information technology firms in Canada and the importance of local connections to institutions of higher education

Analysis of SMEs partner proximity preferences for process innovation

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