Information Search Behaviour during Business Gestation

Johannessen, Jon-Arild; Kolvereid, Lars

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“…According to Landabaso, the most important task for the people in the R&D sector relating to SMEs, is to be 'boundary spanners' in terms of technology and market development. On this basis, it is alarming that several Norwegian studies (Johannessen & Dolva, 1995;Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994;Johannessen et al, 1997) find so little contact between R&D institutions and companies.…”

Section: The Importance Of Structural Links For Innovation Activity Imentioning

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Organizing innovation: Integrating knowledge systems

Johannessen

Dolva

Olsen

1997

European Planning Studies

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The question we attempt to shed light on in this article is: How can we organize national and regional innovation systems in order to increase innovation activity in SMEs globally (small and medium-sized enterprises)? From the individual company's point of view the question pertaining to research would be: How can SMEs utilize new knowledge, new skills and new technology, to increase innovation activity and improve their competitive advantage? The purpose of the article is to develop a simple model for regional innovation centres, designed to overcome the field of institutional inertia in which established institutions to a great extent are trapped. We will also discuss the concept of new scanning institutions.

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Section: The Importance Of Structural Links For Innovation Activity Imentioning

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Organizing innovation: Integrating knowledge systems

Johannessen

Dolva

Olsen

1997

European Planning Studies

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“…Research internationally has quite consistently shown that such services are not well used (see Bouthillier, 2002/3;Chalmers, 1995;Chiware & Dick, 2008;Ikoja-Odonga & Ocholla, 2004;Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994;Jorosi, 2006;Mooko & Aina, 2007;Rickards, Linn & Best, 1989;Shokane, 2002), a point made in the New Zealand context by both the SBAG report (Support for Business Start-up section) and research from the New Zealand Centre for SME Research (Lewis, Ashby, Coetzer, Harris & Massey, 2005).…”

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“…Only one study (Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994) was found which focused specifically on the start-up phase of a new business -a time when it could be expected that individuals would have significant information needs.…”

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“…Research in developed countries, such as Australia (Rickards, et al, 1989), Norway (Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994) and New Zealand, (Chalmers, 1995) was principally carried out prior to 2000. The exceptions to this are a Canadian study (Bouthillier, 2002/3) which investigated the information needs of small business managers in Quebec, and work in New Zealand by Wallbutton (2004) who investigated businesses' use of public libraries in Taranaki, and Lewis et al (2005) which focused on the wider notion of sources of assistance sought by small business owners.…”

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“…Most of the research has been carried out largely within an implicit positivist framework; conceptualising information as "external" and objective -a strategic resource (Johannessen & Kolvereid, 1994;Jorosi, 2006;Shokane, 2002). A consequence of this has been the prevalence of survey methodologies in this work.…”

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An Examination of the Information Behaviour of New Entrepreneurs in the Start-Up Phase of a Business

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<p>This research set out to examine in detail how eight first-time entrepreneurs went about finding out what they felt they needed to know during the first months of their business's operation, and in particular how they constructed their problems or questions in discourse and how they went about addressing them. Based on Brenda Dervin's Sense-Making methodology and work by Pamela McKenzie, the research involved semi-structured interviews in which participants were invited to recount specific instances of problems or questions they had experienced in their business. Data analysis involved close reading of both the interview transcripts and the researcher's notes and observations in order to draw out key themes and enable analysis of the discursive practices respondents used, particularly in privileging some information sources over others. The research found that the respondents experienced questions and problems largely relating to a small number of business issues, principally around the mechanics of setting up a company, deciding what kinds of services to provide and learning about the market environment in which they were operating. Like other studies of the information behaviour of small business owners, the research found that all of the respondents reported acting on information obtained from friends, colleagues or family. Most had consulted professional advisors, and all but one talked of using the Internet as a source of information. Only one respondent had sought assistance from an enterprise agency. The objectives of this research were twofold; to gather information about the actual behaviour of new entrepreneurs, and to test the potential usefulness of the sense-making methodology to an understanding of new business owners' information needs. Both of these objectives were largely met, with the research concluding that Sense-Making offers a valid and useful model with which to investigate the information behaviour of new entrepreneurs.</p>

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Information Search Behaviour during Business Gestation

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