Starting Up in Business Networks Why Relationships Matter in Entrepreneurship [Hardcover]

This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment. The book highlights the importance of inter-organizational business relationships. Asserting that new ventures need to interact and connect with customers and suppliers, alongside policy actors and universities, Starting up in Business Networks demonstrates how beginning a new venture demands initiating and developing business relationships. Noting a lack of prior research into the process by which start-ups embed into an existing business network, this book presents examples from countries such as Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and China to analyse the emergence and evolution of start-up business networks.

Introduction.- Section 1: Starting up business relationships.- Chapter 1 Initiation of business relationships in start-ups, (Lise Aaboen, Elsebeth Holmen & Ann-Charlott Pedersen).- Chapter 2 Third actors initiating business relationships for a medical device start-up: effect on network embedding and venture creation processes (Tamara Oukes & Ariane von Raesfeld on behalf of the PCDIAB consortium).- Section 2: Relationships Dynamics in New Business Development.- Chapter 3 Starting-up: Relating to a context in motion (Antonella La Rocca, Ivan Snehota & Debbie Harrison).- Chapter 4 When start-ups shift network  notes on start-up journey (Antonella La Rocca, Christina ?berg & Thomas Hoholm).- Section 3: Start-ups and technological collaboration in industrial networks.- Chapter 5 R&D collaboration and start-ups (Jens Laage-Hellman, Maria Landqvist & Frida Lind).- Chapter 6 Starting up from Science  The case of a university-organised commercialization project (Malena Ingemansson Havenvid).- Section 4: Academic spin-offs and the issue of commercils,