Erschienen in:
Industrial and Corporate Change, 29 (2020) 4, Seite 935-957
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1093/icc/dtaa006
ISSN:
0960-6491;
1464-3650
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AbstractWe explore the innovation-enabling factors in young innovative companies (YICs) considering different elements of firm-specific absorptive capacity along with factors related to the industrial structure. Evidence from Italian YICs, known as innovative start-ups whose creation was prompted by the Start-up Act in 2012, shows that absorptive capacity factors matter with differences for product and process innovation. Moreover, the configuration of the industry context remarkably shape innovation, providing implications for policy-makers seeking to improve the national competitiveness by sustaining new ventures of high technological value.